[Part 13]

[Benton Bradberry’s 2012 book, “The Myth of German Villainy” is a  superb, must-read, revisionist look at how the German people have been systematically, relentlessly and most importantly, unjustly vilified as the arch criminal of the 20th century. Bradberry sets out, cooly and calmly as befits a former US-Navy officer and pilot, to show why and how the German people have been falsely accused of massive crimes and that their chief  accuser and tormenter, organized jewry is in fact the real party guilty of monstrous crimes against Germans and the rest of the world.

Part 13, starts with an outline of the dire conditions in Germany prior to the National Socialists taking power. After taking power international jewry launched a world-wide trade boycott against Germany and cut off funding from international jewish banks. In part response Hitler asked the German people to give him 4 years of emergency dictatorial power (Enabling Act) to solve the problems that confronted Germany.

What Hitler intended was a total revolution.

“The people,” he said, “were not put here on earth for the sake of the economy, and the economy does not exist for the sake of capital. On the contrary, capital should serve the economy, and the economy in turn should serve the people.”

In the section, “Night of the Long Knives” Hitler finally takes action against the SA’s Chief of Staff, Ernst Rohm and his close associates that were causing the Party to lose support from industry and military leaders, in addition to threatening a possible coup against Hitler. Hitler was praised in a Daily Mail article for saving his country.

In the section, “1934 Annual Nazi Rally at Nuremberg” Hitler proclaimed the “thousand year Reich”. The Nuremberg Rally was held annually in September until 1938 to show the world and energize the nationalistic pride of the German people and their support for National Socialism.

In the section, “Hitler Revives the German Economy” the dramatic and probably the greatest economic turnaround in history is described. The world’s first superhighway system, the “Autobahn,” was a shining example of National Socialism’s economic policies at work. Mass production of the Volkswagen, which literally means “people’s car,” was another. Germany got around the jewish trade boycott and capital strangulation using a barter system that helped the economy flourish.

Finally, in the section, “Hitler Becomes the Most Popular Leader in the World” the praise and admiration of foreign statesmen and prominent personalities for the success of Germany under Hitler and the National Socialists is described. Even that traitorous tool of international jewry was moved to say:

“One may dislike Hitler’s system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated I should hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.”― Winston Churchill, 1935

— KATANA.]

NOTE: The author has very generously given me permission to reproduce the material here — KATANA.

 The book can be bought at Amazon here: The Myth of German Villainy

The Myth of

German Villainy

by

Benton L. Bradberry

Contents

[Clicking on a link in the Contents here will take you to that Part, in a separate post]

[Part 01]

Preface

Chapter 1 – The Myth of Germany as an Evil Nation

Germany’s Positive Image Changes Overnight

[Part 02]

Chapter 2 – Aftermath of the War in Germany

The Versailles Treaty

Effect of the Treaty on the German Economy

Was the War Guilt Clause Fair?

Did Germany Really Start the War?

[Part 03]

Chapter 3 – The Jewish Factor in the War

Jews at the Paris Peace Conference

Jews in Britain

[Part 04]

Chapter 4 – The Russian Revolution of 1917

Bolsheviks Take Control

Jews and the Russian Revolution

Origin of East European Jews

Reason for the Russian Pogroms Against the Jews

Jews Leave Russia for America

Financing the 1917 Revolution

Jews in the Government of Bolshevik Russia

[Part 05]

Chapter 5 – The Red Terror

Creation of the Gulag

Bolsheviks Kill the Czar

Jews as a Hostile Elite

The Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor)

[Part 06]

Chapter 6 – The Bolshevik Revolution Spreads Throughout Europe

Jews in the Hungarian Revolution

Miklos Horthy Saves Hungary

Jews in the German Revolution

The Spartacist Uprising in Berlin

Jewish Bolsheviks Attempt to Take Italy

Jewish Bolsheviks Attempt to Take Spain — The Spanish Civil War

Czechoslovakia in Danger of Communist Takeover

The Comintern’s Aim? World Domination!

[Part 07]

Chapter 7 – The Nation of Israel

History of the Expulsion of Jews

[Part 08]

Chapter 8 – Jews in Weimar Germany

Jews Undermine German Culture

[Part 09]

Chapter 9 – Hitler & National Socialists Rise to Power

The 25 Points of the National Socialist Party

[Part 10]

Chapter 10 – National Socialism vs. Communism

National Socialism

Jews Plan Marxist Utopia

[Part 11]

Chapter 11 – Jews Declare War on Nazi Germany

Text of Untermeyer’s Speech in New York

The Jewish Persecution Myth

Effect of Boycott on the German Economy

Jewish Exaggerations are Contradicted by Many

[Part 12]

Chapter 12 – The Nazis and the Zionists Actually Work Together for Jewish Emigration out of Germany

The Nuremberg Laws – 1935

The Zionist Movement

[Part 13]

Chapter 13 – Life in Germany Under Hitler

Night of the Long Knives

1934 Annual Nazi Rally at Nuremberg

Hitler Revives the German Economy

Hitler Becomes the Most Popular Leader in the World

[Part 14]

Chapter 14 – Hitler Begins Reclamation of German Territory

Chapter 15 – The 1936 Olympics

[Part 15]

Chapter 16 – “Anschluss”. The Unification of Austria and Germany

Austrian Economy Revived

Austria’s Jews

[Part 16]

Chapter 17 – Germany Annexes the Sudetenland

[Part 17]

Chapter 18 – War with Poland

The Polish Problem

Hitler’s Proposal to Poland

Kristallnacht

German-Polish Talks Continue

Jews Influence both Roosevelt and Churchill

British and American Political Leaders Under Jewish Influence

Roosevelt’s Contribution to Hostilities

Lord Halifax Beats the War Drums

Germany Occupies Bohemia and Moravia

Roosevelt Pushes for War

Anti-war Movement Becomes Active

Poles Murder German Nationals Within the Corridor

[Part 18]

Chapter 19 – The Phony War

Russo-Finnish War

The Norway/Denmark Campaign

German Invasion of Denmark and Norway

Churchill Takes Chamberlain’s Place as Prime Minister

[Part 19]

Chapter 20 – Germany invades France Through the Low Countries

The Phony War Ends.

Churchill the War Lover

The Fall of France

Hitler Makes Peace Offer to Britain

[Part 20]

Chapter 21 – The Allied Goal? Destruction of Germany!

[Part 21]

Chapter 22 – Germany as Victim

Rape and Slaughter

Jewish Vengeance

The Jewish Brigade

[Part 22]

Chapter 23 – Winners and Losers

Bibliography

Chapter 13

Life in Germany

Under Hitler 

When Hitler came to power, Germany was hopelessly bankrupt and deeply in debt. The Treaty of Versailles had imposed crushing reparations requirements on the German people, demanding that Germany pay all the costs incurred by the Allied nations during the war. This was totally unrealistic because the combined costs of the war totaled three times the value of all property in Germany, completely beyond Germany’s ability to pay. At the same time that the Treaty required Germany to pay these unrealistic reparations, other measures in the Treaty, i.e. taking her coal mines, her merchant fleet and her richest farmlands and giving them to other countries, reduced her ability to pay even further. As unrealistic as these demands were, France nevertheless demanded that they be paid, and paid on time, and then sent the French army in to occupy the Rhineland for the purpose of enforcing these reparations payments. The German army was limited by the Treaty to only 100,000 men, too small to resist an invasion, or to even effectively police the country.

Germany was in a double bind. She had no choice but to pay the reparations, but pay with what? To meet the scheduled payments, the German government resorted to printing money, which, predictably, created inflation. Once inflation began, private currency speculators jumped in to try to make money off the inflation by selling the mark short. This caused the German mark to plummet in value, setting off an inflationary spiral which quickly zoomed out of control. The Jews totally dominated finance and the financial markets in Germany, and nearly all of these currency speculators were Jews. Their role in setting off the inflation received wide publicity and was therefore well known by the German people. The inflation went out of control, to the point that at its worst, a wheelbarrow full of marks could not buy a loaf of bread.

Sweeping up worthless German Marks during the 1923 hyper inflation.

The thrifty German middle class who had always been careful savers, were ruined en masse by the inflation, as their life savings simply evaporated before their eyes. The value of the mark decreased so rapidly that prices were adjusted upwards several times a day. To compensate, employers began to pay their employees twice a day. With their pay in hand, these poor German people literally ran to a store, any store, to purchase almost anything of value before the price was adjusted upwards again. Almost any item or real asset was preferable to their handfuls of marks which were losing their value by the hour. This wild consumer spending set off an economic boom in Germany for a time, though that soon deflated. Due to the velocity of the inflationary spiral, prices went up so fast that people could not buy enough food with the wages they earned. They began desperately selling off all their personal possessions just to buy enough food to keep themselves and their families alive as wages and salaries lagged far behind the rapidly increasing prices. Pawn shops proliferated. Countless homes, farms and commercial buildings were lost to private banks. Those with access to foreign capital, especially dollars, began buying up property all over Germany for pfennigs on the mark. The private banks and the pawn shops were owned almost entirely by Jews, and the Jews were the ones who had access to foreign capital.

The Jews, as a result, grew rich off the inflation, while ordinary Germans were reduced to living in hovels, and in many cases, starving to death.

According to the British historian Sir Arthur Bryant in “Unfinished Victory,” 1940:

“It was the Jews with their international affiliations and their hereditary flair for finance who were best able to seize such opportunities. They did so with such effect that, even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich. Most of it came into their hands during the inflation. But to those who had lost their all this bewildering transfer seemed a monstrous injustice. After prolonged sufferings they had now been deprived of their last possessions. They saw them pass into the hands of strangers, many of whom had not shared their sacrifices and who cared little or nothing for their national standards and traditions.”

The 1923 inflation resulted in the largest transfer of wealth from one group to another ― that is, from the Germans to the Jews ― in all of German history, and, as might have been expected, feelings of bitter resentment developed toward the Jews because of it.

As if this were not enough, the inflation was soon followed by a global depression which hit the already fragile German economy especially hard. Germany’s unemployment rate at the depth of the depression was the highest in Europe at 30%; even higher than that of the United States, which stood at 24%. Germany’s depression was not just worse than America’s Great Depression, it was much worse. Anguished parents in Germany watched helplessly as their children starved to death. People lost their homes. Shanty towns of hovels constructed of shipping crates and the like sprang up all around Germany’s cities and in the forests. To keep alive, they made communal pots of soup out of anything they could scrounge up, such as turnips, potatoes, and even grass.

By the beginning of 1933, the misery of the German people was virtually universal. At least six million unemployed and hungry workers roamed aimlessly through the streets looking for anything to eat or any way to earn a few pfennigs with which to buy food. The government paid unemployment benefits, but only for six months, after which, nothing, and what it paid was pitifully inadequate. These unemployed men had families to feed, so that altogether some 20 million Germans, a third of the population, were at the point of starvation.

Line at the unemployment office in Hanover, Germany in 1930

The cost of welfare amounted to 57% of the total revenue taken in by the government. The entire society was at the point of collapse. Those lucky enough to still have jobs were not much better off, as their salaries and wages had been sharply reduced. The intellectuals were hit as hard, or harder, than the working class. The unemployment rate of university graduates was 60%. Well educated people could be seen on the streets of Berlin with signs on their backs saying they would accept any kind of work. But there was no work. Hardest hit of all were the construction workers, 90% of whom were unemployed.

Farmers had also been ruined by the two economic disasters; the inflation followed a few years later by the depression. Many had been forced to mortgage their homes and land, but then, when the economy “crashed,” the value of real estate declined to the point that by 1932, to use the parlance of today, they were “under water” in loan to value ratio. Those who could not meet the interest payments saw their homes and farms auctioned off, the result of which was that those with access to foreign currencies (again, mainly Jews) grew rich off the misery of the hapless ordinary Germans. In 1931 and 1932, 17,157 farms, with a combined total of 1.15 million acres, were liquidated in this way.

Germany’s industries, once the envy of the world, saw drastic reductions in production. Thousands of factories had closed down, resulting in a 50 percent decrease in gross industrial production compared to what it had been in 1920. Exports had also dropped by an astounding 75 percent. Germany’s central bank, the Reichsbank, was in danger of collapse due to the growing number of outstanding loans going into the red, while at the same time foreign loans were being called in.

It was estimated during that time that no more than around 100,000 people in all of Germany were able to live without financial worries. Germany was a nation of 65 million people living in gut-wrenching misery caused by a variety of problems, including the imposed burdens of the Versailles Treaty, industrial stagnation, horrific unemployment, and serious political instability. The situation became so bad that between 1929 and 1933 some 250,000 Germans committed suicide out of despair and hopelessness. The birth rate in Germany dropped from 33.4 per thousand to just 14.7 per thousand. Even this birth rate was achieved only because of the higher birth rate in the countryside. In the 50 largest cities, there were more deaths than births. In Berlin, deaths exceeded births by 60 percent. This morass of misery caused many to submit to the allures of Communism, making a Communist takeover of the country a real possibility. The Weimar government proved itself totally incompetent to deal with this multiplicity of crises, with its various factions squabbling impotently as Germany teetered on the brink of disaster.

Germany’s situation was further aggravated by the unrestrained competition of its 25 regional states whose governments were often in direct conflict with policies of the central Reich government. These states, such as Bavaria, Prussia, Wurttemberg and Saxony, had ancient origins, and only a few years before, that is, before the 1871 consolidation of Germany, they had been independent, sovereign monarchies. Not surprisingly, they jealously guarded the power and privileges which still remained. Germany was a federation, with a weak central government and each of the 25 states was still ostensibly sovereign. Getting them to work together for the greater good of Germany was nearly impossible. Germany had become a country that was ungovernable.

March 21, 1933, Hitler strolls toward the Garrison Church in Potsdam (Suburb of Berlin) for a ceremony to open the new Reichstag session. Hitler became Chancellor in January, 1933.

These were the conditions that existed in Germany when Hitler and the National Socialists came to power in 1933. But as if the situation were not bad enough, conditions were made worse by the worldwide Jewish boycott of German goods which immediately followed Hitler’s election to the Chancellorship. The immediate result of the boycott was a precipitous 10% drop in German exports, which were already disastrously low, which then threw even more people out of work. The boycott also attempted to strangle the German economy by cutting off funding from international Jewish banks. International Jewry had declared war on Germany with the intention of undermining and destroying the already fragile German economy in order to discredit and destroy the National Socialists (Nazis) who had just been elected into office. Germany was already at the point of collapse, and the boycott might well have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.

After assessing the situation, Hitler gave a speech to the German people in which he said that the difficulties facing Germany were so dire that he needed emergency dictatorial powers in order to confront them:

“German people, give us four years time, after which you can arraign us before your tribunal and you can judge me!”

Hitler speaks to the German people and asks for 4 years of dictatorial power to cure Germany’s ills.

The Reichstag responded overwhelmingly. On March 23, 1933, the Reichstag voted 441 to 84 to pass the Enabling Act into law, which gave Hitler the 4 years of emergency dictatorial powers he said he needed to resurrect Germany’s economy.

“The great venture begins,” Hitler said. “The day of the Third Reich has come.”

Hitler knew from the start that the task he had set for himself would be immense and difficult to accomplish. He knew that Germany would have to be transformed from top to bottom, beginning with the very structure of the state. The old class structure would have to go and a new German society, imbued with a new civic spirit would then take its place. He also intended to free Germany from foreign hegemony (the Versailles Treaty) and to restore German honor in the world. But the first and most immediate task would be to put the six million unemployed back to work.

Hitler intended not only to put men back to work, but to give prestige and honor to the concept of “work,” itself. Germany had traditionally been stratified by “class,” with a privileged class at the top, including the industrialists, and the working class at the bottom, who were considered by the upper class to be nothing more than “instruments of production.” In the eyes of the capitalists, “money” was the important element in a country’s economy. To Hitler’s way of thinking, that conception was upside down. Hitler believed that “money” was only an instrument, and that “work” was the essential element in an economy. Work was man’s honor, blood, muscle and soul, Hitler believed.

“All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful ― to contribute nothing to the community.”

“Nothing falls into a man’s lap from heaven. It is from labor that life grows.”

“Social honor recognizes no distinction between the employer and the employed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honor and respect.” Adolf Hitler

Hitler wanted to put an end to the class struggle and to reestablish the priority of the human being as the principle factor in production. Germany could do without gold to finance industry, he believed. In any case, Germany was broke and didn’t have any gold. Other things could be used to finance industry, and he would find them, but “work” was the indispensable foundation for industry and for the economy. The worker had been alienated from society in Germany because he had traditionally been treated with disdain and contempt. Hitler believed that to restore the worker’s trust in the fatherland, he would from now on have to be treated as an equal, not as a socially inferior “instrument of production.” Hitler argued that under previous so-called democratic governments, those who ran these governments failed to understand that in the hierarchy of national values, “work” is the very essence of life. Mere matter, either steel, or gold, or money of any kind, is only a tool.

What Hitler intended was a total revolution.

“The people,” he said, “were not put here on earth for the sake of the economy, and the economy does not exist for the sake of capital. On the contrary, capital should serve the economy, and the economy in turn should serve the people.”

It would not be enough to reopen the thousands of closed factories, put the people back to work and continue with business as usual. Unless things were drastically changed, the workers would remain, as they had been before, nothing more than living machines, faceless and interchangeable. Hitler was determined to establish a new moral balance between the workers and capitalism. He was determined that capital was to be used in its proper function as a tool to facilitate what the workers create with their labor.

“It will be the pride of my life,” Hitler said, “if I can say at the end of my days that I won back the German worker and restored him to his rightful place in the Reich.”

Hitler knew that such a revolution could not be achieved as Germany was presently structured. The 25 different states that made up Germany continued to compete with each other and to initiate policies that conflicted with those of the central government in Berlin. No coherent national program for economic recovery could be initiated as long as this condition existed. The revolution could also not succeed as long as there were dozens of political parties and thousands of deputies of every conceivable stripe, all squabbling and competing with each other. There would have to be centralization and control if the revolution were to succeed. There were also the Communists who continued assiduously in their efforts to undermine the German state and turn it into a Russian style Soviet Socialist Republic. The Communists would also have to be dealt with.

Hitler took a series of steps to secure absolute power over Germany which was necessary to impose a coherent recovery program. First, he abolished the independent local governments of the 25 states in Germany and replaced them with Reich Commissioners answerable only to Hitler and the National Socialist regime.

Jewish prisoners at Dachau, 1938.

Then he cracked down on the Communists. The SA and the SS rounded them up by the thousands and locked them up in the newly constructed “re-education center” at Dachau near Munich ― later called a “concentration camp.” 78% of the membership of the Communist Party in Germany was Jewish. Therefore, to arrest a Communist was almost always to arrest a Jew. It was not that Jews were being singled out for arrest because they were Jewish. They arrested the Communists who almost all happened to be Jews. Hitler saw the Communists as enemies of the German people.

By centralizing federal power in Berlin, and by locking up the Communists, Hitler put an end to the constant squabbling and working at cross purposes among the states and began to create rational, consistent policies and programs necessary for national recovery. Step by step, Hitler implemented his plan.

On May 2, 1933, Hitler outlawed the trade unions and ordered the SA to arrest the trade union leaders, who also happened to me mostly Jews. These too went to Dachau. Hitler then established the “German Labor Front” as the only labor organization allowed in Germany, and placed Dr. Robert Ley in charge. Ley, an intelligent and industrious man, had been an aviator in the war and worked as a chemist before joining the Nazi Party. Ley confiscated the money of the labor unions and used it to fund his “Strength Through Joy” program, a broad-based program to improve the working and living standards of Germany’s workers. As part of his program, Ley ordered two new cruise-liners to be built which were used to take German workers on foreign holidays. In 1938 an estimated 180,000 people went on cruises to places such as Madeira and the Norwegian fjords. Others were given free holidays in Germany.

Hitler with Dr. Robert Ley, new head of the German Labor Front.

The Strength Through Joy program also built sports facilities, paid for theatre visits, and financially supported travelling cabaret groups. Although the German worker paid for these benefits through compulsory deductions, the image of people being given holidays and subsidized entertainment was of great propaganda value for the Nazi government. It also vastly improved the lives of German workers.

The Strength Through Joy program also subsidized the development of the People’s Car, known as the Volkswagen. The American auto maker, Henry Ford, was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler in his plan to reshape the German culture in favor of the working man. In fact, Hitler said, in 1931, “I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration.” Hitler’s (and Ley’s) mass production of the Volkswagen car was modeled on Ford’s formula of mass production, low prices, and high wages for workers. Ford also shared Hitler’s opinion of the Jews.

By abolishing the labor unions, Hitler was able to hold down wages to give industry a chance to prosper and grow. It has been said that labor unions are in the business of extortion. They extort ever higher wages out of factory owners by strikes and threats of strikes, by slowdowns and often by sabotaging machinery and equipment, all of which is extremely deleterious to industrial growth and development. The aims of labor unions can be summed up by a comment made by the American labor leader, Samuel Gompers. When asked what the labor unions wanted, he said, “More.” Even though self-defeating in the end, labor unions never stop demanding ever higher wages and benefits, until eventually they put the company out of business. By outlawing the labor unions and establishing the government controlled “German Labor Front,” Hitler was able to maintain a fair wage level for all German workers, not just the members of trade unions, and at the same time to end the strangulation effect of the trade unions on German industry.

On July 14, 1933 the Communist Party and the Social Democrat Party were banned. Party activists still in the country were arrested and sent to the concentration camp. Hitler decided that while they were at it, they would clean up Germany in other ways, as well. The Gestapo began arresting and incarcerating beggars, prostitutes, homosexuals, alcoholics and anyone who refused to work, or who was “work shy,” as they put it. A law was then enacted banning all political parties except for the Nazi Party.

All of these measures were met by hysterical propaganda diatribes in the international Jewish press in which events were exaggerated out of all proportion to their actual significance. Labor unions, the Communist party and all other left-wing movements and organizations had been specifically targeted by Hitler and the Nazis as “enemies of the German people.” As Jews were highly disproportionately represented in the labor unions and all other left-wing movements and organizations, they were disproportionately arrested and incarcerated at Dachau. This was described in the international Jewish press as an attack upon the Jews.

The Nazis were accused of specifically singling out and arresting Jews, simply because they were Jews. In reality, there was, at this time, no specific Nazi program to target Jews, per se. Nevertheless, international Jewry made the most of this opportunity in their anti-German propaganda campaign.

Night of the Long Knives

The greatest threat to Hitler’s survival during the early years of the Third Reich came from the SA, a huge and powerful organization within the Nazi Party, around 3½ million strong, led by its Chief of Staff, Ernst Rohm. [The SA (Sturmabteilung), literally Storm Detachment/Assault Division, functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Also known as the “Brownshirts” and “Storm Troopers”.] The SA was largely responsible for putting Hitler into power, but now in power, things changed. If he was to succeed in implementing his programs, Hitler now needed the support of the industrial and military leaders. The German General Staff despised and detested the SA. The Industrialists who had financed Hitler, also detested the SA and saw them as a dangerous bunch of hooligans. Rohm had made matters worse for himself by indiscreet remarks about absorbing the German army into the SA with himself as the commander. The SA was at that time much larger than the Army. This further set the General Staff’s teeth on edge.

Several of the SA leaders, including Rohm, had also been vocal about their socialistic, anti-capitalist sentiments, which neither Hitler, the industrialists nor the army approved of. The SA Brown Shirts were also not very popular with the average Germany citizen because of their gangster-like, thuggish behavior. Critical and derisive remarks made indiscreetly by Rohm about Hitler, personally, also got out. Rohm began to be seen as a “loose cannon” whose loyalty could no longer be trusted, and who might even be a threat to Hitler’s leadership. General von Bloomberg and President Paul von Hindenburg advised Hitler that he had to do something about Rohm and the SA or they would no longer be able to support him. The industrialists were telling him the same thing. Both Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler had already been warning Hitler of a possible coup by Rohm’s SA against Hitler, himself. Hitler finally decided that he had to act against Rohm and the SA.

Hitler began by ordering all the SA leaders to attend a meeting in the Hanselbauer Hotel in the city of Wiesse. There was no explanation of what the meeting was about. Meanwhile Goering and Himmler were drawing up a list of political enemies outside the SA whom they wanted eliminated. On June 29, 1934, Hitler, accompanied by the SS, arrived at Wiesse where he personally arrested Ernst Rohm. During the next 24 hours 200 other senior SA officers were arrested on their way to Wiesse.

[Add. image — Hanselbauer Hotel in the city of Bad Wiessee where Rohm was arrested.]

Several were shot as soon as they were captured but others were taken into custody for further consideration. Hitler personally liked Rohm and decided to pardon him because of his past services to the Nazi movement, but both Goering and Himmler argued against it, advising Hitler that he was making a dangerous mistake. Hitler finally relented and decided that Rohm must die, but insisted that he be given the chance to commit suicide. When Rohm refused, he was shot by two SS men.

Chief of the SA, Ernst Rohm

All together, around 77 of these “unreliables,” including Rohm, were “officially” shot, putting an end to all opposition to Hitler and the National Socialists. Unofficial estimates of the number executed range much higher, however. In a speech following the executions, Hitler explained his actions to the German people.

“In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people. I gave the order to shoot the ringleaders in this treason.”

The Night of the Long Knives was a turning point in the Nazi regime, making Hitler the supreme, unchallenged ruler of Germany.

An article in the Daily Mail of London was full of praise for Hitler’s actions.

“Herr Adolf Hitler, the German Chancellor, has saved his country. Swiftly and with exorable severity, he has delivered Germany from men who had become a danger to the unity of the German people and to the order of the state. With lightening rapidity he has caused them to be removed from high office, to be arrested, and put to death.

The names of the men who have been shot by his orders are already known. Hitler’s love of Germany has triumphed over private friendships and fidelity to comrades who had stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the fight for Germany’s future.”

Daily Mail, London, July 2nd 1934.

Victor Lutze was appointed to head the SA in Rohm’s place. Under Lutze, the SA gradually dwindled and lost its power as the SS under Himmler grew rapidly to take its place as the dominant force in Germany.

[Add. image — SA-Stabschef Viktor Lutze (28 December 1890 – 2 May 1943) was the commander of the SA, succeeding Ernst Röhm as Stabschef. He died from injuries received in a car accident. Lutze was given an elaborate state funeral in Berlin on 7 May 1943.]

On August 2, 1934, President von Hindenburg died and Hitler took over the office of President and thereby became Commander in Chief of the army. Hitler, thereafter called himself the “Fuhrer,” or leader.

On August 19, 1934, an election, called a “plebiscite,” was held in which the German people could express either their approval or disapproval of Hitler and his regime. About 95 percent of registered voters went to the polls, and 90% of them voted for Hitler. The election was internationally supervised, and by all accounts, was a fair and open election without voter intimidation of any kind. Hitler now had the overwhelming support of the German people.

1934 Annual Nazi Rally at Nuremberg

The Nazis held their annual rally at Nuremberg in September, 1934, just two weeks after the plebiscite, during which the Fuhrer’s grand proclamation was read:

“The German form of life is definitely determined for the next thousand years. The Age of Nerves of the nineteenth century has found its close with us. There will be no revolution in Germany for the next thousand years.”

The Jewish American journalist William L. Shirer (“Inside the Third Reich”) attended the rally to see what Nazi pomp and pageantry was all about. He wrote:

“I am beginning to comprehend some of the reasons for Hitler’s astounding success. Borrowing a chapter from the Roman Catholic Church, he is restoring pageantry and color and mysticism to the drab lives of 20th century Germans. This morning’s opening meeting…was more than a gorgeous show; it also had something of the mysticism and religious fervor of an Easter or Christmas Mass in a great Gothic cathedral. The hall was a sea of brightly colored flags. Even Hitler’s arrival was made dramatic. The band stopped playing. There was a hush over the thirty thousand people packed in the hall. Then the band struck up the Badenweiler March, … Hitler appeared in the back of the auditorium and followed by his aides, Goring, Goebbels, Hess, Himmler and the others, he slowly strode down the long center aisle while thirty thousand hands were raised in salute.”

To Shirer, the intoxicating atmosphere inside the hall was such that;

“every word dropped by Hitler seemed like an inspired word from on high.”

The 1934 Nazi rally at Nuremberg during which Hitler proclaimed the “thousand year Reich.”

In his speech before the Nuremberg Rally, Hitler absolved the SA Brown shirts from any complicity in the events precipitating the blood purge (Night of the Long Knives) which had just occurred, and acknowledged their unwavering loyalty to him and the party. The 50,000 Brown shirts assembled for the occasion responded with a full throated chorus of “Seig Heils.” There was no longer any question of SA loyalty.

The Nuremberg Rally was held annually in the month of September until 1938 when it was suspended. The Rallies were intended to show the world a German nation-state in lock step with its leader and his ideology. They also energized the nationalistic pride of the German people. Hitler obtained the services of the German film actress and director, Leni Riefenstahl, to make a documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg rally.

Mass gymnastics at the Nuremburg Rally during “Day of Community.” Hitler and the National Socialists promoted unity, discipline, health and vigor for the German “volk.” [Adolf Hitler watched the huge demonstrations given on the Zeppelin Field, Sep 8, 1938.]

Leni Riefenstahl had made a name for herself in the German film industry by appearing in a series of so-called mountain films directed by Arnold Franck. In these films, she played the part of a prototypically fit and healthy German girl with a properly Aryan face. This film genre would soon become associated with the nationalistic aspirations of the emerging Nazi party. She went on, in 1932, to write, direct and perform in her own mountain film, “The Blue Light.”

Hitler with Leni Riefenstahl at Nuremberg

Despite her lack of experience, the film was remarkably sophisticated in its visual effects. In the whiteness of its snow and the robust Teutonic energy of its heroines, The Blue Light was a celebration of the spirit and vitality of the Aryan Volk, a theme which was central to Nazi ideology.

It was no accident that Riefenstahl was hand-picked by Hitler to direct a series of documentary films that would cast National Socialism in a favorable light. The first and most influential of these films was Triumph of the Will, which was shot in commemoration of the 1934 rally at Nuremberg. This film has been called the most dazzling and successful propaganda film ever made.

Hitler Revives the German Economy

In a very short period of time, Hitler engineered what was and remains probably the greatest economic turnaround in history. People went from starving to full employment, and became so prosperous that ordinary workers were given vacations abroad, paid for by the German Labor Front, the government’s labor organization. Germany went from hopelessly bankrupt to massively restoring, and even expanding, its infrastructure. The world’s first superhighway system, the “Autobahn,” was a shining example. Mass production of the Volkswagen, which literally means “people’s car,” was another. General Eisenhower was so impressed by the German Autobahn system that when he became president years later, he initiated the superhighway system for American ― a direct replication of the German Autobahns. Hitler also pursued a policy of “autarky,” meaning, national “self sufficiency.” That is, Germany would limit imports and produce its own consumer goods, in so far as possible. Hitler transformed Germany from a seemingly irreversible deep depression into the most vibrant economy in Europe.

The Volkswagen (people’s car) begins mass production.

Hitler’s government had reduced unemployment from 6,014,000 in January 1933, when he became Chancellor, to less than 338,000 by September 1936. At the same time, wages also dramatically increased. German trade was prospering, and deficits of the cities and provinces had almost disappeared. Contrary to official historiography, expenditures for armaments had been minor up to this point, and played no part in Germany’s economic recovery. That came later.

Unemployment was eliminated at first, primarily by increased government spending on public works. Germany’s basic infrastructure, such as railways, roads, and public building projects, were improved and expanded. There was also indirect government support to private works projects. At the same time, taxes were sharply reduced to create an incentive for hiring more workers. The effect was an injection of increased wages into the national economy, followed by increased consumer spending, which itself led to job increases. Hitler’s policy of “autarky” (national self-sufficiency) had the effect of creating “wealth creating” jobs in manufacturing which was necessary to sustain long term economic growth. By 1936 there was a labor shortage, especially in the building and metallurgical trades.

[Add. image — Charles Lindbergh in Germany, inspecting German aviation.]

Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh travelled widely in Germany at this time. In his book Autobiography of Values, Charles Lindbergh wrote:

“The organized vitality of Germany was what most impressed me: the unceasing activity of the people, and the convinced dictatorial direction to create the new factories, airfields, and research laboratories…”

His wife drew similar conclusions.

“… have never in my life been so conscious of such a directed force. It is thrilling when seen manifested in the energy, pride, and morale of the people―especially the young people,” she wrote in “The Flower and the Nettle.”

To counter the effects of the international Jewish boycott of Germany, including the financial strangulation, Hitler simply went around the international bankers by creating a new currency issued by the German government instead of borrowing it from the Jewish owned central bank. This new currency was not backed by gold, but by the credibility of the German government. The new mark was essentially a receipt for labor and materials delivered to the government. Hitler said:

“For every mark issued, we required the equivalent of a mark’s worth of work done, or goods produced.”

The government paid workers in these new marks and the workers spent them on other goods and services, thus creating more jobs for more people. In this way the German people climbed out of the crushing debt imposed upon them by the international bankers (read, Jewish bankers). Within two years Germany was back on her feet again. It had a solid, stable currency with no debt and no inflation.

Germany even managed to restore foreign trade, despite the international bankers’ denial of foreign credit to Germany and despite the global boycott by Jewish owned industries and shipping. Germany got around the boycott and the capital strangulation by exchanging equipment and commodities directly with other countries using a barter system that cut the bankers completely out of the loop. The Jewish boycott actually boomeranged. While Germany flourished ― because barter eliminates national debt, interest on the debt, and trade deficits ― Jewish financiers were deprived of the money they would have earned on these activities. This, of course, only intensified international Jewry’s determination to undermine and destroy the Nazi regime.

“Through an independent monetary policy of sovereign credit and a full employment public works program, the Third Reich was able to turn a bankrupt Germany, stripped of overseas colonies, into the strongest economy in Europe within four years, even before armament spending began.” (Henry C.K. Liu, “Nazism and the German Economic Miracle,” Asia Times — May 24, 2005)

Hitler Becomes the Most Popular

Leader in the World

The German economic miracle did not escape the notice of foreign leaders who heaped praise on Hitler at every opportunity. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Britain wrote:

“I have now seen the famous German leader and also something of the great change he has affected. Whatever one may think of his methods ― and they are certainly not those of a parliamentary country, there can be no doubt that he has achieved a marvelous transformation in the spirit of the people, in their attitude towards each other, and in their social and economic outlook.”

“He rightly claimed at Nuremberg that in four years his movement had made a new Germany.”

“It is not the Germany of the first decade that followed the war ― broken, dejected and bowed down with a sense of apprehension and impotence. It is now full of hope and confidence, and of a renewed sense of determination to lead its own life without interference from any influence outside its own frontiers.”

“There is for the first time since the war a general sense of security. The people are more cheerful. There is a greater sense of general gaiety of spirit throughout the land. It is a happier Germany. I saw it everywhere, and Englishmen I met during my trip and who knew Germany well were very impressed with the change.”

“One man [Hitler] has accomplished this miracle. He is a born leader of men. A magnetic and dynamic personality with a single-minded purpose, a resolute will and a dauntless heart.”

“He is not merely in name but in fact the national Leader. He has made them safe against potential enemies by whom they were surrounded. He is also securing them against the constant dread of starvation which is one of the most poignant memories of the last years of the War and the first years of the Peace. Over 700,000 died of sheer hunger in those dark years. You can still see the effect in the physique of those who were born into that bleak world.”

“The fact that Hitler has rescued his country from the fear of repetition of that period of despair, penury and humiliation has given him an unchallenged authority in modern Germany.”

“As to his popularity, especially among the youth of Germany, there can be no manner of doubt. The old trust him; the young idolize him. It is not the admiration accorded to a popular leader. It is the worship of a national hero who has saved his country from utter despondence and degradation.”

“To those who have actually seen and sensed the way Hitler reigns over the heart and mind of Germany, this description may appear extravagant. All the same it is the bare truth. This great people will work better, sacrifice more, and, if necessary, fight with greater resolution because Hitler asks them to do so. Those who do not comprehend this central fact cannot judge the present possibilities of modern Germany.”

“That impression more than anything I witnessed during my short visit to the new Germany. There was a revivalist atmosphere. It had an extraordinary effect in unifying the nation.”

“Catholic and Protestant, Prussian and Bavarian, employer and workman, rich and poor, have been consolidated into one people. Religious, provincial and class origins no longer divide the nation. There is a passion for unity born of dire necessity.”

“The divisions, which followed the collapse of 1918, made Germany impotent to face the problems, internal and external. That is why the clash of rival passions is not only deprecated but temporarily suppressed.”

“I found everywhere a fierce and uncompromising hostility to Russian Bolshevism, coupled with a genuine admiration for the British people with a profound desire for a better and friendlier understanding of them. The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again, nor have they any vindictive feelings towards the French. They have altogether put out of their minds any desire for the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine.”

“But there is a real hatred and fear of Russian Bolshevism, and unfortunately it is growing in intensity. It constitutes the driving force of their international and military policy. Their private and public talk is full of it. Wherever you go you need not wait long before you hear the word ‘Bolshevism’, and it recurs again and again with a wearying reiteration.”

“Their eyes are concentrated on the East as if they are watching intently for the breaking of the day of wrath. Against it they are preparing with German thoroughness.”

“This fear is not put on. High and low they are convinced there is every reason for apprehension. They have a dread of the great army, that has been built up in Russia in recent years.”

“An exceptionally violent anti-German campaign of abuse printed in the Russian official Press and propelled by the official Moscow radio has revived the suspicion in Germany that the Soviet Government are contemplating mischief.” ― David Lloyd George, Daily Express, 9/17/1936

Winston Churchill, who would later become Hitler’s most obstinate enemy when German economic power began to again challenge that of Great Britain, had this to say in 1935 ― (before he became the front man for the Jewish Focus Group):

“In fifteen years that have followed this resolve, he [Hitler] has succeeded in restoring Germany to the most powerful position in Europe, and not only has he restored the position of his country, but he has even, to a very great extent, reversed the results of the Great War… the vanquished are in the process of becoming the victors and the victors the vanquished … whatever else might be thought about these exploits they are certainly among the most remarkable in the whole history of the world.”

“… and the achievement by which the tables have been turned upon the complacent, feckless and purblind victors deserves to be reckoned a prodigy in the history of the world and a prodigy which is inseparable from the personal exertions of life thrust on a single man …”

“Those who have met Hitler face to face in public, business, or on social terms, have found a highly competent, cool, well-informed functionary with an agreeable manner, a discerning smile and few have been unaffected by a subtle personal magnetism.”

“Nor is this impression merely the dazzle of power. He exerted it on his companions at every stage in his struggle, even when his fortunes were in the lowest depths …”

“One may dislike Hitler’s system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated I should hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.” ― Winston Churchill, 1935

Douglas Reed, British journalist, playwright, novelist and author of many books about Europe between the wars and after World War Two provided the following observation about the economic transformation of Germany under Hitler:

“Germans in their country are not less well cared for than the English people in theirs, but better. You are faced with a country immensely strong in arms and immensely strong in real wealth ― not in gold bars in a vault of the national bank, but industry, agriculture, the thrift and energy of the work people, and the conditions of life they enjoy.”

“In Germany now they have a mighty organization, equipped with full powers, for improving the lot of the work people in factories and workshops. Their engineers and social workers and artists go into the factories and see what needs to be done. They say that a shower room, recreation room, a restaurant, a medical clinic, a dental clinic is needed and these are provided. They have a civic sense, a social conscience, a feeling of the community of German mankind ― in spite of the bestial concentration camps ― which you lack.”

John L Garvin, editor of the London Sunday paper, “The Observer,” wrote:

“Last May, I returned, bringing my family for another sojourn, after two years spent in other European countries. I found a Germany which has advanced miraculously from the point of 1933. I found political solidarity, a wholesome tone in the life of city dweller and country dweller alike.”

“I found living costs materially reduced and an unmistakable optimism on every hand. In every quarter I found the same answer to my questioning: Profound belief in the genius of the Leader, love and admiration for him as an individual. My observations have covered a wide range of social classification.”

“I have talked with the humblest type of laborers, with merchants, professional men. I have yet to discover a dissenting voice to the question of loyalty to the Fuehrer. My two young daughters are attending German public schools and are receiving an education which in thoroughness could be equaled in few countries.”

And this from Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to Washington, written June 29, 1937:

“I think that it must be admitted that National Socialism has done a great deal for Germany. It has undoubtedly cleaned up Germany in the ordinary moral sense of the word. The defeatism, the corruption so manifest a characteristic in the days after the war has disappeared, at any rate from public view. It has given discipline and order and a sense of purpose to the great majority of young people who in earlier days did not know where to go or what they were living for.”

In an article which appeared in the New York Times on July 12, 1935, John H. Holmes, Pastor of Community Church wrote:

“The spectacle of Germany today is a tremendous experience. Fifteen years after the war in which the allied powers thought they had destroyed her, Germany is on her feet again. As compared with 1922 and 1931, when I last saw Germany, the change is miraculous. The people are confident, enthusiastic and courageous. They have recovered their morale. In 1931 the German people were going to pieces. But now they are themselves again, no doubt about that! The masses of the people are increasingly with Hitler. I have been fooling myself all along that this was not so, but now I know it is so.”

In his book, Defense of Germany, British scholar G.E.O. Knight wrote:

“Last July, feeling that the Press of this country was willfully lying and conducting a political campaign against Germany, I resolved to go to Berlin and make free and independent investigation. I was determined to do pretty much as I pleased when I got there, and no one interfered with my movements.

I found Germany, comparatively speaking, a free country, much freer than some of its neighbors. My own views were not always acceptable to my many friends, among whom I can count Jews and Gentiles, Nazis and Communists, Democrats and Socialists. Soon I found that being a Nazi does not preclude one holding views that few Labor men in my own country would dare to express to their ‘comrades’ of the national Labor Party.”

The general improvement in the standard of living of the German people under Hitler’s regime put Germany well ahead of all other nations at that time, including the United States. The Nazi regime implemented a viable social security program for retirement. The working conditions were drastically improved, and the German people were provided opportunities for leisure and recreation after work. The same level of prosperity and social benefits for all its citizens have rarely been achieved anywhere in the world, either before or since then.

German society under Nazi rule was also very democratic, with regular elections of representatives to a legislature. It was not democratic in the same sense as in the United States today. The German form of democracy, as an expression of the popular will, was assured by the right to organize plebiscites to express the desires of the people.

“The result of the revolution [National Socialist revolution] in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune. The memorable words of the great Corsican [Napoleon] that every soldier carries a Field Marshal’s baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.” ― Adolf Hitler

 

“In England, under democracy, you do not put experts in charge of your affairs, but distribute favors among men of a small class without especial qualification for the posts they receive. This is the misuse of democracy in the interest of class, the betrayal of democracy, and it is the cause of our woes, past, present and to come.” ― Douglas Reed, in “Disgrace Abounding”

 

“What the German nation has ardently desired for centuries is henceforth a reality; one single, fraternally united people, liberated from the mutual prejudices and hindrances of past times.” ― Adolf Hitler

 

“The will of the people is the will of the government, and vice versa. The new political structure raised in Germany is a kind of ennobled democracy; i.e., the government derives its authority from the people, but the possibility of misinterpreting the peoples will or of sterilizing it by the intervention of parliamentary methods has been eliminated altogether.” ― Dr. Joseph Goebbels

 

“The movement was consolidated together in one Reich a people who were hitherto kept in disunion but various lines of division… religious divisions, class divisions, professional divisions, political divisions and the territorial divisions into the various autonomous federal states. This unification is now an historical fact. Nationalism has founded a genuine folk community.”

“Formerly the votes of the people were distributed among several political parties. Eventually the number of these parties came to thirty-six. They had no great common platform to offer to a people who were struggling to live. They carried on their political campaigns against one another in a quarrel over paltry and selfish issues.”

“Today the people of Germany vote for one leader and one party in a consolidated unity that has never before been dreamed of. Following the disappearance of the political parties, which fought only for their own ends and kept the nation divided, great and common vital problems were presented to the people so that they might understand which ideals were worth striving for and for which sacrifices would have to be made. The whole of Germany was aroused to struggle for these great questions which are of vital importance to a nation’s existence.” ― Rudolf Hess

 

“The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.” ― Adolf Hitler

 

“… Hitler has repeatedly taken the opportunity of consulting the nation and has each time obtained its wholehearted approval of his policy and methods of government.” ― Cesare Santoro, “Hitler Germany, Vivisection”

 

“I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.” ― Adolf Hitler

The following photos show Hitler interacting with the German people, especially children. Hitler is the most popular national leader in the world at this time.

 Contrary to the propaganda, Hitler was a Catholic and a Christian believer. Here, he is photographed leaving the Marine Church in Wilhelmshaven.

It has been made out by those whose intent was to slander and smear Hitler that he was an atheist, an occultist, that he believed in astrology, that he engaged in pagan ritualism, etc., ad nauseam. The History Channel is currently running a documentary asserting these very absurdities. But this is how Hitler described his beliefs in Mein Kampf.

“First, I believe in Almighty God… and I solemnly declare that Almighty God has chosen me for this task.” He said further, “We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity – but not only in theory.”

Hitler saw Christianity as an essential cultural institution for Germany:

“The German Government, which regards Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the ethical life of the German nation, attaches the greatest importance to the maintenance and development of friendly relations with the Holy See [The Pope]. The national government regards the two Christian confessions [Protestantism and Catholicism] as the most important factors of the maintenance of our ethical personality. The Government will adopt a just and objective attitude towards all other religions.” ― Adolf Hitler

In numerous utterances by Adolf Hitler and about Adolf Hitler, he hardly comes across in the way he was described above. In his 25 Point Speech of 1920 (point 24), Hitler said:

“The Party as such advocates a positive Christianity without binding itself to any particular church.”

“In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come, He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgment and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.” ― From a speech by Adolf Hitler.

 

“I believe in the Holy German people inside and outside the German frontiers. I believe in Adolf Hitler, who by the grace of God, was sent to give the German people faith in themselves once more.” ― German Faith Movement.

 

“Adolf Hitler gave us back our faith. He showed us the true meaning of religion. He has come to renew for us the faith of our fathers and to make us new and better beings… just as Jesus Christ made his twelve apostles into a faithful band to the martyr’s death whose faith shook the Roman Empire, so now we witness the same spectacle again. Adolf Hitler is the true Holy Ghost.” ― Hanns Kerrl. German Minister for German Affairs.

It was international Jewish propaganda that made Hitler out to be an atheistic, murderous monster. His Nazi regime did not persecute the German people, nor deprive them of their rights. On the contrary, as can be seen by the statements and comments of world leaders at that time, Hitler devoted his life and all his energies toward improving the lot of his German people, and the German people responded with an outpouring of love and devotion for their Fuhrer rarely seen in history. The police actions of his regime were directed against the enemies of the German people, which included the Communists and other Leftist organizations whose members were generally not ethnic Germans. Both Hitler and the German people saw what the Jews in Russia had done to that country, and knew that they intended to do the same to Germany if they ever got the chance. Hitler had these leftist revolutionaries rounded up and locked away to make sure they never got the chance. That the vast majority of these people were Jews was only coincidental. They were locked away because they were Communists and revolutionaries, and therefore a dire threat to Germany. Judging by what they did in Hungary, Italy and Spain, he had every justification for his actions.

The international Jewish press blew these events all out of proportion and accused the Nazi regime of “persecuting” the Jews in Germany for no reason except that they were Jews. They repeatedly and relentlessly accused the Nazi regime of the intent to “exterminate” the Jews, beginning with the Untermeyer Speech in New York in 1933. That simply was not true. Most Jews lived unmolested in Germany right up until the beginning of World War II, and a great many lived unmolested in Germany right through the war. It was the Communists, who happened to be Jews, who were harshly dealt with. A number of German Army officers, including a couple of field marshals, Field Marshal Erhard Milch, for example, were Jewish. Milch oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe.

At the same time that the comments and observations of statesmen, historians and journalists presented above in this chapter were being made describing Germany as a land of happy, prosperous people with a benign government dedicated to their well being, international Jewry continued its virulent anti-German propaganda campaign portraying Germany as a charnel house of repression, brutality, and murder. In March, 1935 the National Council of Jewish Women in New York City proclaimed Hitler a “world menace.” At precisely the same time in Germany, Julius Streicher, publisher of “Der Sturmer” newspaper, was comparing Hitler to Jesus Christ. A professor Hauser made the news by declaring that God had revealed himself to Germany through Hitler, and Dr. Reinhardt Krause declared that Hitler alone had “God’s order” for the Germany nation. The National Socialists claimed that the international hostility toward Hitler was entirely Jewish inspired. While the German people adored Hitler and saw him as the savior of Germany, many outside Germany had been conditioned by Jewish anti-German propaganda to regarded him as a menace to mankind.

Hitler had been elected in large part on his promise to reclaim territories taken away from Germany by the Versailles Treaty, and to create a single German state to include all German people. British, French and Soviet leaders refused to recognize Germany’s aims as legitimate, but chose instead to regard Hitler’s revanchist goals as international aggression.

Representatives of Britain, France and Italy met at an Italian village (Stresa) on April 11, 1935 to reaffirm their opposition to Germany absorbing Austria or the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. Hitler denounced these reaffirmations as hostile to Germany, declaring that his aims were legitimate and that Germany did not want another war. He spoke of the absurdity of war and of the “follies” of the past. Wars of revenge, he said, were out of date. “A deliberate maker of war may have been a patriot in the old days,” he said, “but today such a person would be a traitor.” “We are not imperialists,” he added, and said that all the German people wanted was “equal rights for all,” and its honor restored.

All the German people wanted, he said, was to be treated like everyone else, and among other things, that meant the return of German territory.

Despite the dogged anti-German propaganda, there remained support for Hitler’s aims from reflective, thoughtful men. On June 6, 1935, Britain’s leading cleric, the Archbishop of Canterbury, expressed sympathy for Germany’s position among nations, declaring that Germany;

“… must be recognized as a nation entitled to an equal place among other nations.”

Yet, the average American or Englishman was made to believe that Germany was a world menace and should be controlled and held in check. They were made to believe through the Jewish controlled media that Germany was an evil, brutish country with an oppressive, totalitarian government that kept a terrified population under strict control with secret police forces and concentration camps. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

The “holy war” declared on Germany by international Jewry continued relentlessly, and the propaganda campaign of deliberate lies, smears and misrepresentations was succeeding in turning the world against Germany. The contrast between life inside Germany as it actually was, and the way in which it was depicted in the International Jewish press could not have been greater.

Following is a series of photographs taken during the Nazi period showing the Germans to be a clean-cut, handsome, intelligent and civilized people, not unlike those of any other European country at the time.

This was the real face of Germany during the Nazi period

A German army officer and a soldier (above). A young soldier (below  left) and a young German officer (below right).

A German Officer and his dog

Young men of the “Hitler Youth” Movement (like the Boy Scouts).

Young women of the Nazi Youth Movement (Girls’ equivalent of the boys’ Hitler Youth).

More German Youth Movement Girls

German farm girl, 1930s. German city boy of the 1930s

A 1930s German street (before it was bombed)

German public swimming pool ― 1930s

Strolling the children.

An elegant German couple of the 1930s.

Below is the face of Germany as depicted in Jewish propaganda.

“Propaganda” Nazis

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Part 02 — Chapter 2: Aftermath of the War in Germany

Part 03 — Chapter 3: The Jewish Factor in the War

Part 04 — Chapter 4: The Russian Revolution of 1917

Part 05 — Chapter 5: The Red Terror

Part 06 — Chapter 6: The Bolshevik Revolution Spreads Throughout Europe

Part 07 — Chapter 7: The Nation of Israel

Part 08 — Chapter 8: Jews in Weimar Germany

Part 09 — Chapter 9: Hitler and National Socialists Rise to Power

Part 10 — Chapter 10: National Socialism vs Communism

Part 11 — Chapter 11: Jews Declare War on Nazi Germany

Part 12 — Chapter 12: The Nazis and the Zionists Actually Work Together for Jewish Emigration out of Germany

Part 13 — Chapter 13: Life in Germany Under Hitler

Part 14 — Chapter 14 & 15: Hitler Begins Reclamation of German Territory; The 1936 Olympics

Part 15 — Chapter 16: “Anschluss” The Unification of Austria and Germany

Part 16 – Chapter 17: Germany Annexes the Sudetenland

Part 17 – Chapter 18: War with Poland

Part 18 – Chapter 19: The Phony War

Part 19 – Chapter 20: Germany invades France – The Phony War Ends

Part 20 – Chapter 21: The Allied Goal? Destruction of Germany!

Part 21 – Chapter 22: Germany as Victim

Part 22 (last) – Chapter 23: Winners and Losers

See also:

The Myth of German Villainy: Author Ben Bradberry Interview — TRANSCRIPT

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[Part 12]

[Benton Bradberry’s 2012 book, “The Myth of German Villainy” is a  superb, must-read, revisionist look at how the German people have been systematically, relentlessly and most importantly, unjustly vilified as the arch criminal of the 20th century. Bradberry sets out, coolly and calmly as befits a former US-Navy officer and pilot, to show why and how the German people have been falsely accused of massive crimes and that their chief  accuser and tormentor, organized jewry is in fact the real party guilty of monstrous crimes against Germans and the rest of the world.

In Part 12, the myth of jews having to “flee” for their lives from Germany when the National Socialists took power is debunked. In fact, NS officials and jewish groups worked as partners in assisting jews leave Germany for Palestine through the officially sanctioned and organized program called the Haavara Agreement, or Transfer Agreement, that got started in 1933 and continued functioning until well into 1942. As part of that process about 40 zionist retraining camps were set up throughout Germany where prospective settlers were trained for their new lives in Palestine.

In September of 1935 the Nuremberg Laws were introduced that consisted of; (1) “The Law of the Reich Citizen,” and (2) “The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor.” With this, jews were no longer considered citizens of Germany but rather “subjects” of the Reich with limited rights, such as being no longer able to vote or hold public office. Jews and Germans were also restricted in being able to marry, something that many zionists supported as it kept jewish identity and culture intact.

The chapter ends with this: 

“With the help of the Transfer Agreement, hundreds of thousands of Jews emigrated from Europe to Palestine. In September 1940 the Jews news agency in Palestine, “Palcor,” reported that 500,000 Jewish emigrants had already arrived from the German Reich, including Austria, the Sudetenland, Bohemia-Moravia, and German ruled Poland. Nevertheless, after 1950 it was claimed that the total number of Jewish emigrants to Palestine from all European countries was only about 80,000. What happened to the other 420,000 Jews? In 1940 they probably had no idea that later on they would be reported to have been ‘gassed’!” — KATANA.]

NOTE: The author has very generously given me permission to reproduce the material here — KATANA.

 The book can be bought at Amazon here: The Myth of German Villainy

The Myth of

German Villainy

by

Benton L. Bradberry

Contents

[Clicking on a link in the Contents here will take you to that Part, in a separate post]

[Part 01]

Preface

Chapter 1 – The Myth of Germany as an Evil Nation

Germany’s Positive Image Changes Overnight

[Part 02]

Chapter 2 – Aftermath of the War in Germany

The Versailles Treaty

Effect of the Treaty on the German Economy

Was the War Guilt Clause Fair?

Did Germany Really Start the War?

[Part 03]

Chapter 3 – The Jewish Factor in the War

Jews at the Paris Peace Conference

Jews in Britain

[Part 04]

Chapter 4 – The Russian Revolution of 1917

Bolsheviks Take Control

Jews and the Russian Revolution

Origin of East European Jews

Reason for the Russian Pogroms Against the Jews

Jews Leave Russia for America

Financing the 1917 Revolution

Jews in the Government of Bolshevik Russia

[Part 05]

Chapter 5 – The Red Terror

Creation of the Gulag

Bolsheviks Kill the Czar

Jews as a Hostile Elite

The Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor)

[Part 06]

Chapter 6 – The Bolshevik Revolution Spreads Throughout Europe

Jews in the Hungarian Revolution

Miklos Horthy Saves Hungary

Jews in the German Revolution

The Spartacist Uprising in Berlin

Jewish Bolsheviks Attempt to Take Italy

Jewish Bolsheviks Attempt to Take Spain — The Spanish Civil War

Czechoslovakia in Danger of Communist Takeover

The Comintern’s Aim? World Domination!

[Part 07]

Chapter 7 – The Nation of Israel

History of the Expulsion of Jews

[Part 08]

Chapter 8 – Jews in Weimar Germany

Jews Undermine German Culture

[Part 09]

Chapter 9 – Hitler & National Socialists Rise to Power

The 25 Points of the National Socialist Party

[Part 10]

Chapter 10 – National Socialism vs. Communism

National Socialism

Jews Plan Marxist Utopia

[Part 11]

Chapter 11 – Jews Declare War on Nazi Germany

Text of Untermeyer’s Speech in New York

The Jewish Persecution Myth

Effect of Boycott on the German Economy

Jewish Exaggerations are Contradicted by Many

[Part 12]

Chapter 12 – The Nazis and the Zionists Actually Work Together for Jewish Emigration out of Germany

The Nuremberg Laws – 1935

The Zionist Movement

[Part 13]

Chapter 13 – Life in Germany Under Hitler

Night of the Long Knives

1934 Annual Nazi Rally at Nuremberg

Hitler Revives the German Economy

Hitler Becomes the Most Popular Leader in the World

[Part 14]

Chapter 14 – Hitler Begins Reclamation of German Territory

Chapter 15 – The 1936 Olympics

[Part 15]

Chapter 16 – “Anschluss”. The Unification of Austria and Germany

Austrian Economy Revived

Austria’s Jews

[Part 16]

Chapter 17 – Germany Annexes the Sudetenland

[Part 17]

Chapter 18 – War with Poland

The Polish Problem

Hitler’s Proposal to Poland

Kristallnacht

German-Polish Talks Continue

Jews Influence both Roosevelt and Churchill

British and American Political Leaders Under Jewish Influence

Roosevelt’s Contribution to Hostilities

Lord Halifax Beats the War Drums

Germany Occupies Bohemia and Moravia

Roosevelt Pushes for War

Anti-war Movement Becomes Active

Poles Murder German Nationals Within the Corridor

[Part 18]

Chapter 19 – The Phony War

Russo-Finnish War

The Norway/Denmark Campaign

German Invasion of Denmark and Norway

Churchill Takes Chamberlain’s Place as Prime Minister

[Part 19]

Chapter 20 – Germany invades France Through the Low Countries

The Phony War Ends.

Churchill the War Lover

The Fall of France

Hitler Makes Peace Offer to Britain

[Part 20]

Chapter 21 – The Allied Goal? Destruction of Germany!

[Part 21]

Chapter 22 – Germany as Victim

Rape and Slaughter

Jewish Vengeance

The Jewish Brigade

[Part 22]

Chapter 23 – Winners and Losers

Bibliography

Chapter 12

The Nazis and the Zionists

Actually Work Together for

Jewish Emigration Out of Germany 

The story of the emigration of the Jews from Germany has been totally distorted and misrepresented in contemporary historiography. The emigration of Jews from Germany is typically depicted as some sort of secret undertaking in which those Jews who wished to leave had to escape in the middle of the night, sneaking across borders, crossing over mountain ranges, and leaving behind all their goods and property. Other dramatizations describe the ruinous price the Jews had to pay for an exit visa. All of these poignant tales are nothing more than a stupid fantasy.

There is no doubt that the German government wanted the Jews to leave Germany, and that it applied increasing pressure to persuade them to do so. The anti-Jewish legislation of the Third Reich is a matter of historical fact which cannot be denied; and the hardship imposed upon the Jews was real. But contrary to all the hyperbolic tales and adventure stories contained in Jewish memoirs, Jewish emigration from Germany was a legal event carried out in accordance with established, published procedures.

German government offices and Jewish organizations worked hand in hand to facilitate the emigration. Jews interested in emigrating were extensively counseled and received considerable aid. All talk about a dangerous escape from Germany in the middle of the night is sheer nonsense. The National Socialists wanted to create a nation-state of ethnically pure Germans. The German government wanted the Jews to leave Germany. The Germany government did not stand in the way of Jewish emigration. To have done so would have undermined its own program.

[Add. image — Early in 1935, a passenger ship bound for Haifa in Palestine left the German port of Bremerhaven. Its stern bore the Hebrew letters for its name, “Tel Aviv”, while a swastika banner fluttered from the mast. And although the ship was Zionist-owned, its captain was a National Socialist Party member.]

Intrinsic to National Socialism was the precept that the Germans were a distinct race, and that they had every right to an ethnically and religiously homogeneous homeland. The Zionists were no less nationalistic than the Nazis and likewise declared the Jews to be a distinct race, even superior to others, i.e., the “Chosen People of God,” as they called themselves.

The Zionists wanted to make Palestine into an ethnically and religiously homogeneous homeland for Jews, just as the Nazis wanted Germany to be a homogeneous land of Germans. To that extent, Israel today is no different from Germany of the 1930s. “Nationalism” was an accepted concept throughout Europe during the Nazi era, meaning that each “nationality” or “ethnic group” had a natural right to create a nation-state of its own. President Wilson’s concept of “self determination for all peoples,” was a confirmation of the concept of “nationalism.” The aim of the National Socialists to have a German nation-state exclusively for ethnic Germans was not an aberration, nor was it even unusual for the time. For the Germans to hold their own ethnic group in high regard was also not exceptional for that time.

Except for their tiny Jewish minority, Germany was almost entirely homogeneous in the 1920s and 30s. Encouraging the Jews to emigrate out of Germany became a national policy, though no Jew, at least, before World War Two began, was actually forced to leave. This policy served two purposes; first, to “cleanse” Germany of its alien element, and second, to wrest control of German institutions out of Jewish hands to turn them back over to Germans.

Germany’s policy of encouraging Jewish emigration also served the purposes of the Zionists who wanted to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Toward this end, the Zionists and the Nazis joined forces and actively collaborated in facilitating the emigration of the Jews out of Germany into Palestine. The Zionist Federation of Germany (an organization of Zionist Jews inside Germany) submitted a detailed memorandum to the new Nazi government which served as a “review” of German/Jewish relations and also formally offered Zionist support to the Nazis in their program of encouraging Jewish emigration out of Germany.

[Add. image — The Jüdische Rundschau, Sept. 17, 1935, the official Zionist newspaper in Germany, which welcomed and supported the Nuremberg Laws. This support for the legal definition of who is a jew — as created by Nazis and Jews working together—is still referenced to the present-day in Israel’s “Law of Return” which regulates jewish immigration into that state.

Source: http://newobserveronline.com/hitler-zionists-ken-livingstone/]

The first step, the memo suggested, had to be a frank recognition of fundamental national differences between Germans and Jews. The memorandum stated the following:

“… Our acknowledgment of Jewish nationality provides for a clear and sincere relationship to the German people and its national and racial realities. Precisely because we do not wish to falsify these fundamentals, because we, too, are against mixed marriage and are for maintaining the purity of the Jewish group and reject any trespasses in the cultural domain, we ― having been brought up in the German language and German culture ― can show an interest in the works and values of German culture with admiration and internal sympathy …

For its practical aims, Zionism hopes to be able to win the collaboration of even a government fundamentally hostile to Jews, because in dealing with the Jewish question not sentimentalities are involved but a real problem whose solution interests all peoples and at the present moment especially the German people …

Boycott propaganda ― such as is currently being carried on against Germany in many ways ― is in essence un-Zionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle but to convince and to build …

We are not blind to the fact that a Jewish question exists and will continue to exist. From the abnormal situation of the Jews severe disadvantages result for them, but also scarcely tolerable conditions for other peoples.”

Hitler was very favorably disposed toward cooperation with the Zionists and they with him. According to British historian David Irving, the two largest contributors to the Nazi Party were the general managers of two of the largest Berlin banks, both of them Jewish, and one of them the leader of Zionism in Germany. Irving uncovered this fact in a letter written by Dr. Heinrich Bruning, Chancellor of Germany before Hitler, to Winston Churchill in 1949, while researching for his book “Churchill’s War.”

Hitler wanted to cooperate with the Zionists because he wanted to be rid of the problem of Jewish predominance in German affairs. The Zionists were working to set up an independent Jewish homeland in Palestine and wanted all of Germany’s Jews to immigrate to Palestine, if possible. On August 25, 1933 Hitler entered into a pact with representatives of the Jewish Agency, whose members would eventually become the leaders of Israel. The pact was called the Haavara Agreement, or Transfer Agreement, which was a program for moving the Jews out of Germany to Palestine. “Haavara” in Hebrew means to move, or to relocate.

[Add. Image (click to enlarge) — A Nazi-Zionist “Haavara” certificate issued in Hebrew and in English.

Peter Winter, author of  “The Six Million: Fact or Fiction”, points out that the “centerpiece of Nazi-Zionist cooperation was something called the ‘Transfer Agreement,’” which, he writes, was a pact that enabled tens of thousands of German Jews to migrate to Palestine with their wealth. The Agreement, was concluded in August 1933 following talks between German officials and Chaim Arlosoroff, Political Secretary of the Jewish Agency, the Palestine center of the World Zionist Organization.

Through this arrangement each Jew bound for Palestine deposited money in a special account in Germany. The money was used to purchase German-made agricultural tools, building materials, pumps, fertilizer, and so forth, which were exported to Palestine and sold there by the Jewish-owned Haavara company in Tel-Aviv. Money from the sales was given to the Jewish emigrant upon his arrival in Palestine in an amount corresponding to his deposit in Germany. German goods poured into Palestine through the Haavara, which was supplemented a short time later with a barter agreement by which Palestine oranges were exchanged for German timber, automobiles, agricultural machinery, and other goods.

“The Agreement thus served the Zionist aim of bringing Jewish settlers and development capital to Palestine, while simultaneously serving the German goal of freeing the country of an unwanted alien group,” Winter says.

The German Interior Ministry was put in charge of the logistics for the program and the Reichsbank and the German Treasury were responsible for financing the mass emigration. By November, 1933 the program was in full swing and it kept functioning until well into 1942. The aim was to conduct a peaceful and painless transfer of Jews out of Germany to Palestine with as little inconvenience to the Jews as possible. Coercive measures were used to push those who were unwilling to go. The Zionists even offered suggestions on ways to speed up the emigration process out of Germany. It was a Zionist idea, for example, to force the Jews in Germany to wear the yellow stars. The more pressure applied on the Jews, they reasoned, the more likely they were to leave Germany.

Contrary to popular myth today, Germany’s Jews were permitted to leave with practically all of their possessions and all of their wealth, provided that Jews deposited all of their assets in one of two Jewish owned banks in Germany which had branch offices in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Upon arrival in Palestine they could withdraw their assets according to the terms of the agreement. The German capital of these two Jewish banking firms was guaranteed by the German government. Even after the war these assets were fully available to the Jewish owners or their representatives. Even those Jews who decided to remain in Germany for the time being could transfer all of their assets out of Germany to Palestine through these two banks.

Jewish children gathered for a sporting event in a summer camp organized by the Reich Union of Jewish Frontline Soldiers, Germany, between 1934 and 1936.

The Reich Union of Jewish Frontline Soldiers organized summer camps and sports activities for Jewish children, Germany, between 1934 and 1936.

Some 40 camps were set up throughout Germany where prospective settlers were trained for their new lives in Palestine. Special schools were established for Jewish students who had been barred from German schools, and Jewish teachers, some even from Palestine, were hired to teach in them. In these camps, they held meetings and seminars, sports meetings, went sailing, and hiking through the countryside, and were allowed to hand out leaflets about Zionism. The first kibbutz farms were set up in Germany (collective farms) to teach agriculture to the prospective Jewish settlers. Some of these camps were in operation as late as 1942. These camps flew the blue and white flag with the star of David, which eventually became the national flag of Israel.

[Add. Image (click to enlarge) — Map of Zionist retraining camps in Germany, August 1936. There were about 40 such centers throughout Germany, where the Zionist “Hechaluz” (or “Hechalutz”) organization, with government support, prepared German Jews for new lives in Palestine.]

All of this was paid for by the German government at considerable cost. In addition to the cost of running this program, massive amounts of material and equipment were also sent to Palestine by the German government. This included coal, iron and metal products and machines for desalinating sea water.

[Add. Image — Jewish-German members dancing at a kibbutz in Palestine.]

From 1933 to 1941 around 100 Jewish settlements were built in Palestine with German help. The Haavara (Transfer) Agreement, which was financially supported by the German government, saved the Jewish Agency from bankruptcy. According to Dr. Nahum Goldmann, co-founder of the World Jewish Congress, the Transfer Agreement was an indispensable factor in the creation of the state of Israel.

[Add. Image — SS Untersturmfuhrer Leopold von Mildenstein with his wife at a cafe. Both travelled to Palestine together with a Zionist couple.]

In 1933 and 1934, SS Untersturmfuhrer Leopold von Mildenstein from the SS Office for Jewish Affairs, travelled to Palestine on fact finding missions and was accompanied on these tours by Zionist officials. His final tour lasted 6 months, during which he was a welcome guest at many Kibbutz farms. His report after returning to Germany was so filled with praise and compliments about the work being done by the German Jewish settlers in Palestine that Goebbels had a special coin minted in honor of the joint effort between the Nazis and the Zionists. The coin had a Star of David on one side and a Swastika on the other. In recognition of this coin, Palestine’s largest fruit growing firm decorated their advertisement for Jaffa oranges with a portrait of King David flanked by Swastika flags.*

[* Swastika on Arab Oranges Displeases Berlin Aryans

January 7, 1934, BERLIN (Jan. 5)

Official circles here are protesting against the misuse of the swastika, official Nazi emblem, found printed on the wrappers of Palestine oranges intended for export to Germany. German authorities are displeased that the German national symbol is being used for advertising purposes.

Oranges marked “Saint Elijah, Jaffa”, were wrapped in paper bearing a picture of the prophet surrounded by swastikas. The wrappers were found to have been used by an Arab exporting firm.

Source: http://archive.jta.org/1934/01/07/archive/swastika-on-arab-oranges-displeases-berlin-aryans]

Coin [medallion] minted to honor the joint Nazi/Zionist effort to move Jews out of Germany to Palestine.

[Add. Note — This “Nazi-Zionist” medallion was issued by the Berlin daily Der Angriff to commemorate a joint visit to Palestine by SS officer Leopold von Mildenstein and Zionist Federation official Kurt Tuchler. A series of articles on their tour, appearing under the heading “A Nazi Travels to Palestine,” appeared in Der Angriff in late 1934.]

The Nuremberg Laws — 1935

Meanwhile, Hitler proceeded with his program to reduce the influence and control of Jews in Germany and to marginalize them as a race. The Nuremberg Laws, which changed the legal status of Jews in Germany, became the law of the land on September 15, 1935 soon after they were presented to the German people in a Speech by Hitler at the annual Nazi Nuremberg Rally.

[Add. Image (click to enlarge) — Chart with the title, “Die Nurnberger Gesetze” (Nuremberg Race Laws). Complex chart used to aid Germans in understanding the Nuremberg Race Laws. White circles represent Aryan Germans, black circles represent Jews, and partially shaded circles represent “mixed raced” individuals.]

The Nuremberg Laws consisted of two laws; (1) “The Law of the Reich Citizen,” and (2) “The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor.”

The first law stripped Jews of their German citizenship and made them “subjects of the Reich,” that is, legal residents in Germany, but not citizens. Only those with German blood could be citizens of the Reich.

The second law forbade marriage or sexual relations between Jews and those of German blood, or even the employment of German women (under age 45) in Jewish households. The stated purpose of the law was to protect the purity of German blood, which was deemed necessary to preserve the German race.

[Add. Image — A Hitler Youth instructor explains the Nuremberg racial purity laws to a class of teenaged boys.]

Jews were no longer allowed to vote or to hold public office since they were no longer citizens. Their movements and activities inside Germany were restricted, and a large red J was stamped on their passports. The Nuremberg laws caused Jews to want to leave Germany for friendlier shores, which is precisely what Germany wanted them to do. It should be pointed out, however, that the Jews were never actually forced to leave Germany until well after World War II began, and a great many Jews remained in Germany, unmolested, throughout the war.

[Add. Image (click to enlarge) —  “The Nuremberg Laws”, in English.]

These laws had the unexpected result of generating a lot of confusion and heated debate among Nazi bureaucrats as to how a Jew should be defined because there were a great many people with mixed blood. The Nazis settled on defining a “full Jew” as a person with three Jewish grandparents. A mixed Jew or Mischlinge was defined in two degrees.

The first degree Mischlinge had two Jewish grandparents, while the second degree Mischlinge had only one grandparent. Mischlinges who practiced Judaism were considered full Jews. Full Jews were subject to the full extent of the law, while Mischlings were subjected to the law in lesser degrees, depending on their degree of Jewishness. Mischling civil servants as well those in some other jobs were allowed to stay on.

Surprisingly, many German Jews reacted to the Nuremberg Laws with a sense of relief, because their status was now clarified. They would be required to suffer some inconveniences, but they could now get on with their lives. Instead of being offended by these laws, the head of the German Jewish community and the head of Germany’s Zionist movement, Georg Kareski, actually supported them. In an interview with Angriff magazine, in its December 23, 1935 edition, he said he had been trying for years to find a method to keep the two races (Germans and Jews) separate, and he considered the race laws to be beneficial to Jews.

[Add. Image — The head of the German Jewish community and the head of Germany’s Zionist movement, Georg Kareski. He declared in an interview with the Berlin daily Der Angriff at the end of 1935:

“For many years I have regarded a complete separation of the cultural affairs of the two peoples [Jews and Germans] as a pre-condition for living together without conflict… This interruption of the process of dissolution in many Jewish communities, which had been promoted through mixed marriages, is therefore, from a Jewish point of view, entirely welcome.”]

The Jews were no less interested in keeping their race pure than the Germans were. The Jews in Germany had long worried about being gradually subsumed or absorbed into the larger German population and thus losing their distinct Jewish identity, and Jewish leaders had long tried to prevent marriage outside the Jewish race.

After enactment of the Nuremberg Laws, things quieted down for the Jews in Germany and remained so for the next four years, that is, until the beginning of World War II, and were likely to have remained so if the war had not occurred.

Such were the relations between the Nazis and the Zionists, though information about this cooperative relationship will not appear in the main stream media, nor in official historiography today. On the contrary, such information today is carefully suppressed.

The Zionist Movement

The Zionist Movement itself was formally established in 1897 by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl after publication of his book Der Judenstaat, in which he called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then under Ottoman rule. Though the movement formally began with Herzl, the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine had been incubating for some time prior to that.

[Add. Image — Theodor Herzl  and his booklet, Der Judenstaat, Versuch Einer Modernen Losung der Judenfrage, Theodor Herzl. M. Breitenstein publishing, Vienna-Leipzig, 1896. First edition. German.

“The Jewish State: Proposal of a modern solution to the Jewish problem” by Theodore Herzl, in which he portrays the Jewish problem and the need to find a political-national solution. ]

Zionism as a movement, advocated the “return” of the Jewish people, scattered as they were around the world (the Diaspora), to “their homeland” with the “resumption” of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. World Jewry was divided over the issue of Zionism. Some Jews supported it but many did not. Moreover, there were several things wrong with the precept of Zionism. First, most of the Jews of the world had no ancestral roots in the Land of Israel because around 85% of the world’s Jews are descendants of the Khazars who lived north of the Black Sea, not the Semitic tribes of Palestine. [This is a matter of contention — see poster below, for example.]

[Add. Image — A German poster depicting jews as being a mixture of four “races”.  Source: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1129244 ]

But leaving that aside, a great many Jews at that time did not want to take up residence in Palestine because they liked it just fine where they were, especially those who had immigrated to America. Most American Jews believed that America was the “New Jerusalem,” though there were notable exceptions, such as Louis Brandeis who was an ardent Zionist. Jews had done very well in America, to the extent that the center of world Jewish power had shifted to America. They had no reason whatever to want to leave. But they were doing well in Europe too, and International Jewish power over all Western countries depended on having as many Jews there as possible.

They reasoned that creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and attracting millions of Jews to it would have the effect of weakening Jewish power in America and Europe. Rich, powerful Jews, particularly in America, began using their influence to try to sabotage the Transfer Agreement. The anti-Zionist Jews in America and Europe were the source of most of the anti-Nazi propaganda. The Zionist Jews tended to cooperate with German Nazi leaders because they wanted all German Jews to move to Palestine, while Jews who were opposed to Zionism carried on a virulent anti-German propaganda campaign, and even declared a war against Germany.

By 1939, more than two thirds of Germany’s Jews had emigrated voluntarily in a peaceful process whereby they were permitted to take their wealth with them. Germany’s “Jewish problem” was two thirds solved — peacefully — by the time World War Two began, but Jewish immigration to Palestine (Israel) was stopped by the British who were having political trouble with the Palestinians, else, most of the rest of the Jews might have left Germany too. By October, 1941 only around 160,000 Jews remained in Germany, and 40,000 in Austria.

With the help of the Transfer Agreement, hundreds of thousands of Jews emigrated from Europe to Palestine. In September 1940 the Jews news agency in Palestine, “Palcor,” reported that 500,000 Jewish emigrants had already arrived from the German Reich, including Austria, the Sudetenland, Bohemia-Moravia, and German ruled Poland. Nevertheless, after 1950 it was claimed that the total number of Jewish emigrants to Palestine from all European countries was only about 80,000. What happened to the other 420,000 Jews? In 1940 they probably had no idea that later on they would be reported to have been “gassed”!

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The Myth of Germany Villainy – Part 12 – The Nazis and the Zionists Actually Work Together (Ver 2)

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Part 01 — Cover text; About the Author; Preface; Chapter 1: The Myth of Germany as an Evil Nation

Part 02 — Chapter 2: Aftermath of the War in Germany

Part 03 — Chapter 3: The Jewish Factor in the War

Part 04 — Chapter 4: The Russian Revolution of 1917

Part 05 — Chapter 5: The Red Terror

Part 06 — Chapter 6: The Bolshevik Revolution Spreads Throughout Europe

Part 07 — Chapter 7: The Nation of Israel

Part 08 — Chapter 8: Jews in Weimar Germany

Part 09 — Chapter 9: Hitler and National Socialists Rise to Power

Part 10 — Chapter 10: National Socialism vs Communism

Part 11 — Chapter 11: Jews Declare War on Nazi Germany

Part 12 — Chapter 12: The Nazis and the Zionists Actually Work Together for Jewish Emigration out of Germany

Part 13 — Chapter 13: Life in Germany Under Hitler

Part 14 — Chapter 14 & 15: Hitler Begins Reclamation of German Territory; The 1936 Olympics

Part 15 — Chapter 16: “Anschluss” The Unification of Austria and Germany

Part 16 – Chapter 17: Germany Annexes the Sudetenland

Part 17 – Chapter 18: War with Poland

Part 18 – Chapter 19: The Phony War

Part 19 – Chapter 20: Germany invades France – The Phony War Ends

Part 20 – Chapter 21: The Allied Goal? Destruction of Germany!

Part 21 – Chapter 22: Germany as Victim

Part 22 (last) – Chapter 23: Winners and Losers

See also:

The Myth of German Villainy: Author Ben Bradberry Interview — TRANSCRIPT

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[This is a brief but marvelous and uplifting account of the history, philosophy and aims of the Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth) movement that flourished under National Socialism.  One of its aims was to further world peace by getting the youth of all nations to communicate in friendship and trust. Disastrously for humanity, it and National Socialism was destroyed by the evil power of Organized jewry

— KATANA.]

PART 2

YOUTH ON THE TRAMP

GERMAN YOUTH IN A

CHANGING WORLD

BERLIN

TERRAMARE OFFICE

FOURTH EDITION

1936

Published  by  the  Terramare  Office,  Kronenstraase 1,  Berlin  W 8

Printed by the Terramare Press,  Dresdener Strasse 43, Berlin SW 19

Printed in Germany

CONTENTS

GERMAN  YOUTH  IN  A  CHANGING  WORLD

The Youth Movement

Max Kommerell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . 7

Youth 

Eduard Wechssler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

In Memory of German Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . 10

Hitler-Jugend

Franz Otto Wrede . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .  . . . . . 12

Youth Hostels in Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21

Interchange between the Youth

Baldur von Schirach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . 27

The Wandering Scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29

Leadership of German Youth

Rudolf Apel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Reichsberufswettkampf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 36

Labour Service

Muller-Brandenburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . 38

Olympic Games Berlin 1936

Carl Diem . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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THE WANDERING SCHOLARS

WHEN the youth movement first started in Germany the wandering scholar, with staff and rucksack, was its principal exponent. And he was a good exponent, because he was perfectly right in believing that Shank’s pony is the best method of transportation if one sets out on a journey for the purpose of gaining a knowledge of one’s own country. This spirit logically gave rise to a desire to know the neighbouring countries and is of special importance in the case of Germany; for Germany is surrounded by a ring of powerful nations whose political significance is of the highest importance, and whose histories are part of the cultural development of Europe. The result of this situation was that the German youth movement soon began to cross the national frontiers and explore other countries. The wish to understand one’s neighbours became a ruling factor.

A branch of the youth movement which has lately come into prominence is the international system whereby the youth of various nations exchange visits in organized parties. In the summer of 1935 more than 100 groups of the Hitler Youth, each group consisting of from 10 to 20 members, crossed the German frontiers on exploration tours abroad. With tent and knapsack, they toured France and England, the Balkan States and Poland; into the Baltic countries, northwards as far as Iceland and northwestwards as far as the United States of America. As there were some students who could not meet the costs of such journeys, an arrangement was made to have an exchange of students between the various colleges in different countries. For instance, a German school would invite a number of students from an English school to come and stay as its guests for four or five weeks, and the English school would then in its turn invite the German students to do likewise. Thus it has been made possible to carry out a system of international excursions where the individual student only has to pay his bare travelling expenses.

[Page 29]

German and American High-school students in North Carolina, in the camp of New College, Columbia University

In 1935, 2,500 German boys and girls left Germany as the invited guests of foreign countries. Of these, speaking in round numbers, 600 went to England. 500 to Sweden, 200 to France, 200 to Finnland, 100 to Norway; and the rest, divided into small groups, to other parts of Europe, principally into the countries lying South-East of Germany. For the first time 3 groups, travelled to the United States of America.

These holiday camps have a special significance, because camp life, with its close companionship, enables the youth of both nations to get to know and understand one another. The Reich leader of the Hitler-Jugend was the first to start these international holiday camps. It was something entirely new in international relations when, in the summer of 1934. a group of English students disembarked at Hamburg and were received by a group of the Hitler-Jugend who conducted them to their hostel as guests.

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The site of the first camp was a Saxon house in the Luneburger Heide, the second was established in the mountains in the centre of Germany, and the third at the foot of the Alps. The students in these camps did not come there to discuss questions together but rather to take the spade in the hand and work together. The fourth camp of this kind was established in England in April, 1935, and is probably only the beginning of many more in the future.

The first step in establishing an interchange of students is not always easy. In most cases it is simplified through a mutual understanding brought about by exchanging correspondence. The ambition of almost every German school is to develop an exchange of letters between its students and those of some other school in the neighbouring countries. In the year 1935 about 2,000 letters have been written by German students to Swedish students, about 1,000 to English students, about 1,500 to French students. 1,000 to Norwegian students, 1,200 to Finnish students and an innumerable quantity to the United States of America. German schools are also in correspondence with Polish, Hungarian. Yugo-Slavian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish schools, and in the Far East with China and Japan, Exchange of letters with Australia is also prolific.

Here there is no question of stilted, formal correspondence, but personal matters are entered into, photographs and snapshots are exchanged. Some times when the other party does not respond with the same enthusiasm, one should not be discouraged, for it generally happens in such cases that a friendly answer comes from some other quarter of the globe.

Anyone wishing “to enter into” such correspondence with German boys and girls would do well to write first to: Deutsche Padagogleche Auslandstelle, Berlin NW40, Kronprinzenufer 13

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Baldur von Schirach and Adolf Hitler

THE LEADERSHIP

OF THE GERMAN YOUTH MOVEMENT

ADOLF HITLER once said to the youth of Germany:

“Youth must be led by youth.”

So he appointed a young leader for the Hitler-Jugend. This was Baldur von Schirach, who has proved that he is fully conscious of his responsibility as leader and that he is capable of forming the Hitler-Jugend. Baldur von Schirach has increased the membership of this organisation from 30,000 to over six millions. Convinced of Baldur von Schirachs ability, Adolf Hitler issued the following order, on the 17th of June 1933: —

An office for the whole of the German Reich is hereby created with the official title “Youth Leader of the German Reich.” The Reich Youth Leader of the National Socialist Party. Baldur von Schirach is appointed Youth Leader of the German Reich. The Youth Leader of the German Reich is at the head of all associations of young people of both sexes and also of the youth organization, of adult associations The foundation of youth organisations requires his sanction.

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The officials appointed by him will take over the duties of the state and communal committees whose tasks are carried out in direct cooperation with the youth organizations.

By this order the Hitler-Jugend was assigned the task in the German State that is fitting for it. The Reich Youth Leadership transferred its offices from Munich to Kronprinzen-Ufer 10, Berlin NW 40.

The first new Youth Leader of the German Reich at once proceeded to complete the extension of his organization. As leader of the entire youth of Germany, he had to create an organization that was capable of including all the various domains concerned with youth.

One of the most responsible tasks is assigned to the staff office which has to select and appoint all the leaders whose names are proposed to it. Welfare, juvenile law and hygiene are dealt with by another department which also deals with all social questions. The entire business side is managed by the administrative department which includes a vast card index register of the members in which the name of each member is recorded with the most exact details. A special sanitary department is charged with seeing that the young people can obtain every kind of sanitary and medical assistance.

The most important and extensive functions are exercised by the section “education and physical fitness”. This section has to provide the young with that spiritual grounding that is absolutely essential for the existence and future of our nation, for the spirit is the determining factor of the body. To school the young and bring them up as men who will be capable one day of taking over the leadership of the state. To see to the physical fitness of the Hitler-Jugend is also one of its tasks. Here sport naturally plays a large part. Not sport for its own sake or for the sake of breaking records but as a means to an end.

Schools for leaders train for this task boys who have proved themselves capable of leading others. A Reich Youth Leader School and Reich Girl Leader School complete the work of the District Leader Schools. The Reich Youth Leadership has established connection with the whole of public opinion by extensive press work. The entire German press now publishes Hitler-Jugend supplements.

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Besides this, the Hitler-Jugend itself owns some all-German and over twenty district newspapers. The all-German newspapers and periodicals issued by the Reich Youth Leadership are published by the Deutscher Jugendverlag, Schiffbauerdamm 19, Berhn NW 7. These include “Das jtinge Dtmtschland”, the official organ of the Youth Leader of the German Reich, “Wille und Macht”, a fortnightly publication, “Die Fanfare”, an illustrated paper of the Hitler Youth, “Der deutsche Sturmtrupp”. the newspaper of the German Youth, and “Jungvolk”, the organ of the German children in the Hitler Youth. The press section also cooperates in the publication of the Youth Hostel periodical Jugend und Helmat and some others.

In connection with the library of the Reich Youth Leadership is a collection of over 20,000 German and foreign fairy tales and books for children from all over the world and which has been placed at the disposal of the Reich Youth Leadership by Dr. Hobrecker.

Foreign youth work is dealt with by a special department which includes the central office for German youth in Europe.

A Commissioner for Youth Associations is in charge of all German youth associations, also those who have not joined the Hitler-Jugend.

Finally, youth hostels are managed by a separate section controlled by the German Youth Hostel Association.

In addition to a Leaders’ Circle, composed of representatives of the various groups of organized youth, the Youth Leader for the German Reich has nominated district and local commissioners for his work in the provinces.

With this great organization, which has not been created for the moment but for the future, Baldur von Schirach, the Youth Leader of the German Reich, will be able to provide those now creating a new Germany with a guarantee for the continuation of the great work that has been begun in our nation. The youth of Germany will follow the path taken by the German nation towards a better future.

Rudolf Apel

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THE REICH APPRENTICES’ COMPETITION

Reichs-Berufswettkampf

BEFORE 1933, when the political struggle was at its height and there were over six million unemployed in Germany, the young people were especially badly affected since it was impossible for them to receive any training in a profession or trade. Hunger and need compelled thousands of young men to earn a few pence somehow or other as unskilled labourers as soon as they had left school, and even these slender earnings had to be given up to the parents to help them to feed the family.

After the National Socialists had taken over the government and had succeeded in reducing unemployment by over four million it became evident that there was a very decided shortage of skilled workers. It was then that the Hitler-Jugend and the German Workers’ Front took the matter in hand. They started a system of professional training for the youth of Germany, culminating in the annual Reich Apprentices’ Competition. The very first of these made it abundantly clear that there was much to be done in this sphere. Young men and women had to be provided with courses of professional training not only to make them fit to compete in the struggle for a living but also to supply the country with people who had received a thorough, all-round training in the trades and professions. It was above all necessary to educate these young people to take a pleasure in their work and their training and to make good and useful citizens of them.

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At the same time they were to be inculcated with the National-Socialist principle that the working community should also be a community of comrades and that the leaders of this community must not only be experts in their own branch but also real leaders of men.

How eagerly the young people welcomed this new principle can be seen from the fact that in 1934 in a single month 282,500 young men and women taking part in 14,350 training courses volunteered to take part in additional courses.

The Reich Apprentices’ Competition for the youth of Germany, this new idea of the Hitler-Jugend, seemed to be an especially suitable method of bringing to the attention of the German youth the importance of a thorough professional training, In 1934 the first of these competitions was prepared and carried out. One million young men and women took part in it completely voluntarily. The second competition, in 1935, already showed a decided improvement in the work done by the young apprentices.

The Reich Apprentices’ Competition and the social work of the Hitler-Jugend are of service to the entire German youth and thus to the nation and its future. The conscientious professional training and the all-embracing health service are designed to produce a generation of healthy and expert workers. The Hitler-Jugend hope that later on the competition will become an Olympiad for all the workers of Germany.

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ONE OF A MILLION IN THE COMPETITION 1935

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THE LABOUR SERVICE IN GERMANY

IN order to gain a clear understanding of the Labour Service in Germany it is necessary to keep in mind certain facts which have been of the utmost importance in its growth and development.

It is not easy for the outsider to appreciate the conditions which led to the introduction of the Labour Service in Germany unless he is able at the same time to appreciate the disastrous effects for Germany of the Treaty of Versailles.

As a result of the Treaty Germany lost 9.5% of her population and over 13% of her area. Thus Germany, already overpopulated, lost more land than population, which only made the problem of over-population more acute, Nor was the situation made any easier by the fact that about a million people returned to the Reich from the ceded territories. At the same time Germany was deprived of all her colonial possessions. One other fact must also be taken into consideration, namely that the land which Germany lost on her easterly and western frontiers, and especially that in the east, was agricultural land of a very high grade so that its loss meant a decrease of almost 30% of the German harvest. In all, Germany was deprived of 27% of her agricultural area.

At the end of the World War Germany was faced with the fact that her food supply situation which had been difficult enough before the War, had reached a state which gave rise to serious anxiety. The German people were very well aware of this as a result of their experience during the War, the loss of which must be ascribed to the fact that Germany was being slowly starved out, Everyone who knows the history of the War and is able to realize the terrible effects of the hunger blockade, knows that Germany collapsed as the result of starvation.

It is only natural that when the War ended the the German people were not able to forget these sufferings in a moment, and it was especially the youth of the country, who had gone through the hungry years 1916 — 1920, in whose memory the horror of these years had been stamped indelibly.

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Student or worker — in the Labour Service everyone does his bit

The same may be said of the soldiers who had fought at the front and had experienced the horrors of the trenches, to which had been added the serious shortage of foodstuffs for the army in the years 1917 and 1918.

And still one more factor must be taken into consideration, namely the ousting of man by the machine, a process which advanced with tremendous strides during the years 1922-1330 and which resulted in making millions of workers superfluous. On top of all this came at last the collapse of the “world economy”.

We in Germany observed all this with eyes which need had made all the sharper. We racked our brains for a solution, and it became abundantly evident to us that only decisive measures on a large scale could help us to overcome the crisis.

It gradually became clear that many thousands of workers must be withdrawn from industry and trade and put to work in other fields, a process that meant nothing more nor less than an industrial revolution. There were too many hands in industry and too few on the land, and thus arose the “back to the land” movement.

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Drainage work in a flooded district

And finally there was one consideration which may perhaps be regarded, as decisive for the foundation of the Labour Service, During the years 1930 — 1933 there were many young men of from 18 to 23 years of age who had never done a day’s work in their life and who had no prospects of ever finding work. They seemed to be condemned to lounge on street corners for the rest of their lives. This was the soil from which Bolshevism hoped to reap a rich harvest.

But — these young men were determined that they should not be doomed to misery and idleness. A mighty reaction began and the best of them rebelled against their lot. For them Adolf Hitler was their one hope, their one hold on life. They took their destiny in their own hands and made work for themselves, and in this they were assisted by the veterans of the War. Thus arose the first Labour Camps.

And then the National-Socialist revolution burst forth.

Already in 1928 the National-Socialist Party had made the introduction of general labour service one of the points or their programme.

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Road-building in the mountains

The Fuehrer. Adolf Hitler, had summoned Colonel Hierl to be one of the leaders of the organization in the Brown House in Munich and had entrusted him with the task of promoting the Labour Service. Two years later, in 1930. Hitler gave his approval to the following principles, which had been worked out by Hierl and were to form the basis of the new plan:

1. The introduction of compulsory Labour Service for all young Germans who are capable of work and in possession of their civil rights, regardless of class differences.

2. Labour Service, which is a service of honour to nation and homeland, to be considered on the same level as service with the colours.

3. Labour Service to be the great training-school of National Socialism.

4. Labour Service to be devoted solely to work which is of benefit to the whole community, economically valuable, and productive, with a view to achieving a sound state of affairs in the foodstuff situation.

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As soon as the Fuehrer had given his approval to these principles Hierl started on the preparatory work for the construction of the Labour Service and made such rapid progress that, immediately after the Fuehrer had taken over the government in January 1933, it was possible to start on the building up of the National-Socialist Labour Service. In this process the already existing National-Socialist training association formed the basis. The Stahlhelm Labour Service was amalgamated and the other organizations of a similar nature gradually dissolved.

At that time, in the spring of 1933, there were many people in Germany who did not understand Hierl’s action and regarded it as dangerous. They were of the opinion that the whole system was designed as an instrument of power in the hands of the National Socialists. All these doubters and critics will have to admit today that they were mistaken. Hierl acted in the right way if he wanted to be able to carry out unhindered his programme of construction, which was complete, well thought out, and above all, clear and simple. We do not say this solely because it has already been justified by the results but because we who had the honour to work hand in hand with him were convinced from the moment when the Fuhrer appointed him as Secretary of State for the Labour Service and Reich Labour Leader (May 1933) that his was the only possible way to achieve the object which we had set ourselves. Filled with this conviction Hierl overcame all of his many opponents, some of whom were very powerful.

Today the Reich Labour Service exists as a State and National-Socialist organization with a strength of some 200,000; today general compulsory Labour Service has been introduced in Germany as a result of Hierl’s calm and determined fight in the service of Fuhrer, nation, and country.

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Foreign Students of Munich University visiting a labour service camp nearby

In the Labour Service Law, which came into force on 1st July 1935, the objects of the Labour Service are described as follows:

“(1) The Reich Labour Service is a service of honour for the German people.

(2) All young Germans of both sexes are obliged to serve the nation in the Reich Labour Service.

(3) The Reich Labour Service is designed to educate the German youth in the spirit of National Socialism and of the national community, that they may have a true conception of work, and above all, a true respect for manual labour.

(4) The Reich Labour Service is designed to carry on work of benefit to the whole community.”

And so 200,000 young men are working day in and day out, each six months in turn and for no financial reward. They are proud and pleased to work, for it is for Germany that they are working and they are filled with the truth of the National Socialist maxim “Work ennobles”. The sons of professional men, of peasants, and of labourers, they stand shoulder to shoulder, live together in comradeship in the same camps, and work together for Germany.

Maller Brandenburg

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THE OLYMPIC GAMES,

BERLIN 1936

THE eleventh Olympic Games of modern times will be held from August 1st – 11th, 1936, in Berlin.

They will be preceded by the Olympic winter sports which will he held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen from February 6th – 16th.

The Games in Berlin will be the fulfillment of an old dream of the German Sporting Associations, which have always wished to pay their tribute to the Olympic idea. The Olympic Games were to have been held in Berlin in 1916 but this was prevented by the War. Today sport has made so much progress in every country that the stadium which was built for 1916 is no longer adequate. By a decision of Chancellor Hitler it has been made possible to enlarge it to a mighty arena capable of holding 100,000 spectators and to convert the surrounding area, which used to be a race-course, into a gigantic sports park comprising a swimming stadium for 10,000 spectators, an assembly ground accommodating nearly half a million people (at the same time a polo field), and smaller stadia for tennis, basket ball, hockey and equestrian sports. There will also be an open-air theatre, a bathing lake, and about a dozen playing fields. In addition, the new sports park will incorporate the “Sport Forum”, i.e., the grounds and buildings of the German College of Physical Education, with its large gymnasiums, boxing rings, etc., its own practice grounds and tracks, and its dormitories and club rooms, The facilities of the College will be increased by the erection of an indoor swimming pool, of laboratories and class rooms and of a dormitory, (“Kameradschaftshaus”) which will be the home of the women athletes during the time of the Games.

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This imposing sports park, with its manifold equipment for all the events of the Olympic Games — with the exception of rowing, sailing and cycling — to be held on the Stadium grounds, will create an ideal centre such as has never previously existed for any contests.

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It will also be the Administrative Headquarters of the Reich Sports Leader, and all the main German sporting associations will assemble in the German Sports Club, which stands in the “Sport Forum”, The cycling stadium will be at a few minutes’ distance from this area, while the rowing regatta will take place in the east of Berlin on the historic course at Grunau; the sailing regatta will be held at Kiel. The Olympic teams have their choice of putting up in hotels or pensions in the city, or they can be lodged in the “Olympic Village” provided for that purpose, on the Los Angeles model, amidst beautiful scenery not far from the Stadium.

For the art competitions (architecture, literature, music, sculpture, painting) there will be a large Olympic Art Exhibition in one of the halls on the city fair ground.

The opening ceremony of the Games will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, 1st August. It will be followed, on the evening of the same day, by a festival play the scene of which will also be the Stadium. The Games will begin on the following Sunday and will last for two weeks. On Sunday August 16, the last competitions and the official closing ceremony will be held. The first week will be devoted to track and field athletics, wrestling, weight-lifting, shooting, cycling and modern Pentathlon. Swimming, rowing, canoeing, basket ball boxing, gymnastic and riding contests will be held during the second week. The fencing, field baseball, football and hockey matches will cover both weeks.

An international motor-car rally and a world meeting of sport-pilots with their planes will be organised on the occasion of the Games. To ignite the Olympic torch, which will burn during the period of the Games on the Marathon Tower above the Stadium, a relay will bear lighted torches from Olympia in Greece to Berlin.

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The seven nations concerned have agreed to cooperate in arranging this relay, which is to establish a symbolic link between the ancient home of the Games and the city of the XIth Olympiad, various international meetings and congresses, such as the International Recreation Congress, are to precede the Games. Lovers of the theatre and music will be presented with special festival programmes during the Olympic weeks.

A special committee, at the bead of which is Dr. Lewald, the former Under Secretary of State, has been formed for the organisation of the Games. The committee’s offices are at 43 Hardenbergstrasse, Berlin-Charlottenburg 2. Fuhrer and chancellor Adolf Hitler has graciously consented to act as Patron of the Games.

The world of sport in Germany is delighted to be able to act as host at the Olympic Games, and the preparations are well under way. A hearty invitation is extended to all the countries in the world and a sincere welcome awaits all who attend. The entire German nation takes part in this invitation, and the Government are also giving their wholehearted support and cooperation. Up to June, 1935, the Olympic committees of forty-eight nations had reported that they would send their teams. Never previously have so many nations taken part in Olympic Games.

We feel sure that the XIth Olympiad will maintain the magnificent tradition of the Games, and above all we hope that it will he a worthy successor to the Games which took place in Los Angeles in 1932, and which, up to the present, are the greatest achievement in the history of modern Olympiads.

Carl Diem

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Lent or made by

Zurcher, Haagen p. 2;

From “Corpus Imaginum” of the Photographische Gesellschaftshaft, Berlin pp, 7, 8;

Rudolf Hatzold, Magdeburg pp, 10 11;

George Bienek, Berlin p 13;

A, Binder, Berlin pp. 14, 15;

Hans Hubmann, Munchener Bildbericht pp. 17, 43;

Pressphoto, Berlin pp 18, 19, 24;

from “Das Deutsche Lichtbild”, Bruno Schultz Verlag, Berlin p.20;

Jul Grosse, Berlin pp. 21, 28; Reichsverband fur deutsche Jugendherbergen p.23;

Foto-Express, Berlin p. 25;

Hitlerjugend, Gebiet Westfalen, Munster p. 23;

Hans Bittner, Berlin p. 41;

from “Jungvolk im Lager”, Verlag Junge Generation, Berlin (Axel von Graefe) p. 31;

from Presse Illustrationen Hoffmann, Berlin p.32;

Max Ehlert, Berlin p. 37;

Hans Reinke, Berlin p. 39;

Estorff-Volkmann, Berlin p. 40;

Schirner Sportbilder, Berlin p. 45.

Cover photograph from Hartmann-Mauritius arranged by Herbert Beyer, Berlin.

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[This is a brief but marvelous and uplifting account of the history, philosophy and aims of the Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth) movement that flourished under National Socialism.  One of its aims was to further world peace by getting the youth of all nations to communicate in friendship and trust. Disastrously for humanity, it and National Socialism was crushed by the evil power of Organized jewry

— KATANA.]

PART 1

YOUTH ON THE TRAMP

GERMAN YOUTH IN A

CHANGING WORLD

BERLIN

TERRAMARE OFFICE

FOURTH EDITION

1936

Published  by  the  Terramare  Office,  Kronenstraase 1,  Berlin  W 8

Printed by the Terramare Press,  Dresdener Strasse 43, Berlin SW 19

Printed in Germany

CONTENTS

GERMAN  YOUTH  IN  A  CHANGING  WORLD

The Youth Movement

Max Kommerell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . 7

Youth 

Eduard Wechssler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

In Memory of German Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . 10

Hitler-Jugend

Franz Otto Wrede . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .  . . . . . 12

Youth Hostels in Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21

Interchange between the Youth

Baldur von Schirach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . 27

The Wandering Scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29

Leadership of German Youth

Rudolf Apel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Reichsberufswettkampf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 36

Labour Service

Muller-Brandenburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . 38

Olympic Games Berlin 1936

Carl Diem . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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THE YOUTH MOVEMENT

THE Youth Movement is so essentially German that it would be justifiable to typify the Germans as the people with a youth movement, or, to go still further, the people which has always had a youth movement and which will ever have one, so long as we mean thereby an active and independent spirit among the rising generation.

NOVALIS

Frederick Leopold von Hardenberg

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In the middle of the eighteenth century, Klopstock founded our hymnal poetry at the age of 24. In Herder’s sick-room at Strassburg a youth of 26 kindled the spirit of another of 21 (Goethe) and the latter thereafter that of his comrades and contemporaries. Schiller was scarcely 30 when, under the double influence of his education and his time, he proclaimed rebellion sacred and read aloud his “Robbers” to his fellows. His example was followed by the three scholars, Holderlln, Schelling and Hegel, who secretly acknowledged the ev xai zav and danced about the Tree of Freedom. Moreover, that most effective spiritual movement which after the classic epoch consciously wore the colours of youth, was initiated by two youths Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis.

Max Kommerell

JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF

“For our youth there is no ease of carefree play, no blithe immunity; the quest of life engages it early. We come to birth in the midst of struggle and in the midst of struggle, vanquished or victorious, we decline.”

From the novel … Ahnung Gegenwart, 1812

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YOUTH

EVERYWHERE violent complaints can be heard and read against young people. It is said that they are sceptical, refractory and lacking in respect. It is true that they never showed less trusting confidence in their parents and teachers. But is this really, as is so often claimed, the children’s fault? Instead, is it not the inevitable result of the prevailing insecurity, a lack of faith, which in this age of the League of Nations, the Peace Pact, Disarmament, and Diplomacy, seems to cling to all high-sounding promises and assurances? If, today, young people refuse to believe their elders so blindly, is this not because the innate truthfulness of these young people rebels against the abuse of sacred promises?

Mistrust of any kind of authority may harbour the profound and true intuition that sacred responsibilities and high sounding promises demand actions as well. Do these young people perhaps feel that the extravagant use of long respected names at exhibitions, banquets, club meetings and professional congresses will be bitterly revenged on the speakers and their peoples? Is it not possible that youth’s refractory spirit conceals a secret will to realise truth and to hold to it in the future?

Every young man or woman, who has a character that must develop in its own way, should be more valuable to us than coal or iron or any of our other raw materials in Germany. For these young people will, one day, be chiefly responsible for the decision as to how our natural products will be used. Talented youth is more precious and worthwhile cultivating than any of the few properties left us. These young people must and will one day mould Germany’s history. And this youth should be sacred to us.

Eduard Wechssler

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WAR MEMORIAL BY THORMAEHLEN

IN THE CONVENT CLOISTER AT MAGDEBURG

IN MEMORY OF GERMAN YOUTHS

KILLED IN ACTION 1914-1918

THE YOUNG GENERATION IN GERMANY

THE HITLER-JUGEND

The young generation in Germany today is so self-reliant, so willing and so trustful that it would be a crime on the part of the war generation not to hand over generously to the youth everything which the latter has the right to demand by reason of the struggle which it has waged for the establishment of a new attitude towards life.

Werner Brumelburg

To understand the origin and rise of National Socialism we must always bear in mind the fact that its founders were soldiers who had fought in the world war. The life that they led in the trenches was the source from which the inspiration and driving force of the new movement came. The new outlook on life sprang from those war experiences, and also the new conception of the relations that should exist on the part of the people towards the nation and towards one another.

In the same way the German youth of today can he understood only through its relation to National Socialism. Even before the war there was a Youth Movement in Germany; but the movement of today is different, because it is an integral part of National Socialism. The young generation was an essential factor among the forces that brought National Socialism to power. In the fighting period of the movement 21 youngsters, between the ages of 15 and 18, lost their lives in the service of the cause. They were members of the organisation which is called the Hitler-Jugend.

The Hitler-Jugend is an organisation that arose spontaneously from the members of the young generation who wished to place themselves at the service of the National Socialist Party.

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Thereupon it received its name as an individual National Socialist organisation. In October, 1932 100,000 boys and girls assembled in Potsdam, on the occasion of the first German congress of the Hitler-Jugend, to parade before the Fuehrer, Adolph Hitler. In that demonstration an example was given which had eloquent significance for anybody with eyes to see.

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This congress was the prologue to the events which, began on January 30th, 1933, After the accession of the National Socialists to power, millions of German boys and girls flocked to the Hitler-Jugend which today has a membership of six millions — the largest youth organisation in the world. These came from the various youth groups of the old regime, which had been organised an different units according to different political affiliations, different classes and different religious denominations. The former youth organisations became extinct and the youth of the country joined in one national organisation in the Hitler-Jugend, which thus furnished a guarantee for the consolidation and continuance of the new State among the generations of the future. Baldur von Schirach, who had hitherto been the Reich leader of the Hitler-Jugend was now appointed by Adolf Hitler as supreme leader of all the German youth.

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The Hitler-Jugend stands for a new type of German youth and therewith we have a new type of German manhood in process of formation. In contradistinction to the former leagues of youth, this Hitler-Jugend is not romantic and does not try to escape from the realities of life but prefers rather to face them openly and master them.

It is true that they love their country excursions, just as the others did. They are attracted to the tent and the campfire. They sing the old German folk songs and indeed have once again brought to public recognition a whole treasury of these songs which hitherto had lain neglected in the folk memory. But they do not remain entirely in the past. They also sing songs which they themselves have composed, the theme of which is part of their own experiences. These young people are creative in the highest degree. Within the past three years they have produced a group of new songs which are of recognised artistic merit.

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And just as they are endeavouring to introduce a new style an the domain of art, so too they are endeavouring to develop a new style of life for the German people. They are well informed on the political situation in Germany and in the world around them. For the first time in Germany, after a long 2,000 years, there is at last a whole generation of politically minded people. They have achieved success in establishing friendly relations with the youth of other countries; because, just like the youth elsewhere, they are determined to maintain peace in Europe and throughout the world.

Indeed, it may be said that their contribution to this noble purpose is a very valuable one. From all this it is clear that in all departments of life, in culture and in art, in the social order and in politics, they represent a definitely creative force. But they recognise very clearly that, in order to have their forces and their practical capabilities properly organised a strong leadership is necessary, so that their striving to work for this one ideal, which is Germany, will have its best effects. For that reason they formed themselves into a solid phalanx under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, and through their own leader they have declared that outside the Hitler-Jugend any other league of youth will be opposed by the spirit of the community, which is the spirit of the State.

The distinguishing feature of this youth organisation, which differentiates it from all other youth organisations in the world, lies in the fact that it is specifically an organisation in support of the State. Other youth organisations like the Italian Balilla were founded under the patronage of the State; but here we have a youth organisation which was founded when the State did not exist, the purpose of which was to furnish a basis on which the State could be founded.

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The German youth of today has adopted a principle which is peculiar to itself and which Adolf Hitler has expressed in the phrase:

“Youth must be led by youth.”

Therefore their leaders are chosen by a system of promotion from the leadership of one group to another within the organisation.

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The first rung in the ladder is the leadership of the small Comrade Band (Kameradschaftsfuhrer), which comprises only ten members. Next comes the troop leader (Scharfuhrer); after that comes the leader of the Comitatus (Gefolgschaftsfuhrer); following that we have promotion to the respective grades of Sub-district leader (Unterbannfuhrer), District leader (Bannfuhrer), Chief District leader (Oberbannfuhrer) and Regional and Chief Regional leaders (Gebietsfuhrer: and Obergebietsfuhrer). The girls organisation has its own special structure and its own special work; but it stands in close relations of comradeship with the Hitler-Jugend and is conducted along the same general lines. When the German boy reaches the age of 10 he joins what is called the Jungvolk; at the age of 14 he passes over into the Hitler-Jugend.

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At the age of 10 the girl joins the Jungmadels; at the age of 14 she passes over to the League of German Girls (The B. D. M. — Bund Deutscher Madel).

When the leaders are being chosen to fill the various positions, only one qualification is taken into account — and this is decisive in each case. It is the qualification that arises from practical achievement, In other words, when it becomes a question of choosing a leader for any of the various grades in its organisation, the young generation in Germany asks first of all: what has he done? The principle of Service is the main consideration in the Hitler-Jugend, and through it are eliminated the old time distinctions of class and position, profession and education, birth and money. It is thus that the unified National Socialist nation is being constructed.

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Therefore in this work of nation building the Hitler-Jugend discharges a high educational function and is legally acknowledged by the State as a coordinating factor with school and family training. Naturally it works in close collaboration with those two.

In excursions and camps, in home parties and school lectures, in schools which have been established for the specific purpose of teaching the art of leadership, in athletic meetings and in festive celebrations — it is here that the new Germany is being constructed as a free community on the basis of thorough-going equality in social comradeship. It is a Germany that is inspired with the spirit of creative youthfulness and is at the same time conscious of its mighty cultural and historical inheritance. It is a Germany that is determined to preserve and advance everything that is essentially German and in accord with the German spirit. And we at least believe that this is the best service which a nation can render to the common interests of mankind.

Franz Otto Wrede

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YOUTH HOSTELS IN GERMANY

YOUNG Englishmen who have had the opportunity of travelling in Germany and have made use of the Youth Hostels or “Jugend Herbergen” are always loud in praise of this institution, the only thing of its kind in the world. Various countries are now beginning to imitate it.

The visitors to these hostels found happy young people bent on wandering all over their native country and they were by no means only the young people belonging to the so-called Youth Movement, but came from all ranks of the German people. The young workman sat next to the young student, college boy next to board-schoolboy youths and girls together. The “Herbergsvater”, the Father of the home, keeps an eye on everything and provides food for his young guests unless they prefer, as they usually do, to prepare their simple meal for themselves. In the evening they are shown their bunks, usually built in pairs one above another in shipboard style.

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Their blankets, sheets or a sleeping sack, unless they have brought their own are served out and they sleep the sound sleep of the wanderer till the sun wakes them to another happy holiday morning. Thus the great masses of German youth learn to know their own country and its people, refresh themselves for their daily toil by a couple of weeks of fresh air and country scenes and begin to understand that simplicity and naturalness are the fountains of national health.

It is impossible to calculate the value of the Jugend-herberge as a national educational factor. They also had the tremendous task of welding together once more into a concrete whole the youth of Germany who, up to the year 1933, have been split up by political machinations into rival factions.

Yet the work of the Youth Shelters has not been in existence for so long. The founder was a Council school teacher named Richard Schirrmann in Wesphalia. He saw the need of fresh air and country life for the people of the industrial districts of the Ruhr and so he started his pupils hiking. He got his friends among fellow teachers to put him and his boys up on beds of straw laid down in schoolrooms which were empty on account of the summer holidays.

That was the root idea of the Jugendherberge. In 1910 he sent out his first public appeal — by 1914 a number of Youth Hostels were in existence. Naturally the movement had to start all over again after the war. Now the Youth Hostels have been embodied in the model organization of the Hitler Youth. This has given fresh impetus and a new life to the movement. A network of nearly 2,100 Jugendherbergen is spread over the whole country. In 1934 about seven million young people spent the night in these shelters.

The Jugendherbergen are not a commercial institution. Their object is to offer sleeping accommodation to young people as cheaply as it can be done.

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Youth Hostel Castle Stahleck near Bachaach in the Rhineland

They reckon on self-help. There are no porters, chambermaids or waiters. Everyone must look after his own wants and see that the shelter is left in good order for the nest comers. The Jugendherbergen are simple, but the hygienic arrangements are modern and meet all requirements. This is especially true of those built within the last years by the various sections of the National League, by great societies or municipalities. There are also Youth Hostels in old castles, city bastions, cloisters and farmhouses; schoolrooms are still used at times; but we are glad to say that such makeshift shelters are gradually being done away with.

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To-day 700 Youth Hostels have bath and shower bath laid on over 12,000 provide full board and lodging and most of them have cooking facilities with which the hikers can prepare their own food.

Needless to say there is no part of Germany without its Jugendherbergen. Not only are they to he found all along the Rhine and in the Black Forest— the districts most favoured by English touring groups. The so-called secondary mountain chains of Germany — the Harz Mountains, the Thuringian Forest, the Odenwald and the Spessart— have for the most part become known to youthful hikers only since the opening of the young people’s shelters. Many an old castle has become a centre of youthful activities since it has been converted into a Jugendberberge, Such are the castle of Altena, where the whole movement took its rise, Freusburg on the Sieg Rothenfels, the old castle of the Quickboms, theLudwigstein, dedicated to the memory of Wandervogel fallen in the war, and many others. Finally various great cities— Munich, Cologne, Cassel, and recently Frankfort on-the-Main— have erected Jugendberbergen.

As a result of the world crisis and also of a mistaken financial policy in recent years the extension of the hostel system has temporarily had to slow down. But the crisis in Germany could not stop young Germans from wandering on their weekends and their holidays, and since the taking over of the youth hostels by the Hitler-Jugend the financial situation has been improved and the work is being enthusiastically carried on:

 

“We intend Germany to have so many youth hostels that there will not be more than a day’s walk from one to the next.”

In the meantime youth hostels have also been erected abroad. There are Youth Hostel leagues in Switzerland, in Holland and in Scandinavian countries. In Great Britain too a similar movement has arisen in the last few years and a lot of shelters have been founded in England and Scotland.

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IN THE GIRL’S LEADER SCHOOL CASTLE NEUENBURG

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In the first German Youth Hostel, Burg Altens

The various leagues are in close contact. Last year the second international assembly of Youth Hostel Leagues took place at Bad Godesberg, on the Rhine.

It is to be hoped that the cooperation among the various leagues will become closer and closer. Since German Youth Hostels have existed young people from other countries have ever been sure of a welcome in the shelters. The number of young guests from foreign countries has during the last years rapidly increased up to over 100,000 in 1935. With good reason an Englishman once wrote to the German league of Youth Hostels:

“You are doing more for the peace of the world than the League of Nations.”

Truly, the German Youth Hostels are another step on the long path towards a world at peace: Youth to Youth!

Further information will be gladly given by: Reichsverband fur Deutsche Jugendherbergen, Berlin NW40, Roonstrasse 5.

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THE education of the youth is one of those problems which must persistently occupy the attention of every civilized nation. And for each nation the solution of the problem is different, because it is conditioned by the national character. Yet I hold that there is no other branch of public effort so well suited for an international exchange of ideas as that branch which is represented by the educators of youth. The more the educators of youth in the various civilized nations succeed in coming to a mutual understanding on certain fundamental principles of education, so much greater is the probability that the youth of one nation will not develop a spirit of rivalry towards that of another nation, but will rather grow up in friendly relations with the others, and thus prepare the ground for subsequent international co-operation for the youth of today will be the political leaders tomorrow.

If collaboration between the youth leaders of the various nations is to be productive of the desired results — such a collaboration as I have striven for and in which have attained at least some modest success for my pains-then the first condition to be fulfilled is that all those who are engaged in this work must be determined that when the youth of foreign nations are entrusted to them they will absolutely renounce the thought of infecting the minds of this youth with political ideas. When the task in hand is to bring about an understanding between the young people of the various nations, youth leaders who are conscious of their responsibilities will not seek to gain a political success for certain ideas and maxims, but will strive solely to bring about mutual appreciation on a purely human basis, in a spirit of companionship and absolute uprightness. This was the line followed in former interchanges between the German youth and the youth of other nations.

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Foreign and German Students in Summer Camp on the Baltic shore

And for the future it will continue to be the goal which the youth leaders must persistently keep in view throughout all their international collaboration. This, for instance, was the spirit in which a camp for German youth was organised in England in the summer of 1935, as the counterpart of the English camps which were arranged in Germany the previous year.

The primary value of these latter institutions is to extend the mental horizon of the individual. The more the youth of the various nations associate with their contemporaries in foreign lands, the more they will understand and appreciate the character and ways of foreign nations, and perhaps they may thus get a general insight into those inner trends which direct the coarse of political events in each nation. Treated in this way, interchanges between the youth of the various nations will not and cannot be used as a political instrument, but will he a means of mutual education.

Baldur von Schirach

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The Epic Story of the Waffen SS

Leon Degrelle

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This is a self-spoken biography (with an introduction by his daughter). He was one of many, who wished and believed that they could make a better Europe and struggled mightily to that end. Whatever one’s political outlook.., one cannot doubt the courage and conviction of Degrelle or the men that he led. That he survived so much carnage and the vengeance of his enemies at the end is remarkable. That he then went on to produce such a memorable account of his experiences we should be thankful for. It was an epic struggle by any standards…

When Degrelle joined the Wehrmacht he was offered the rank of lieutenant, but he refused and he went into Russian campaign as an ordinary private. He points out that Waffen-SS was really a front-line unit and a respected fighting force. Also, that 98% were NOT professional soldiers, or just young men after adventure, or NOT the goose-stepping “half-mad” stereotypes of Hollywood. Most of the volunteer units had a tragic end as they would rather fight to the last man instead of being handed over to their vengeful countrymen. The Waffen-SS had an estimate of 150-250,000 European (non-German) volunteers who fought with honor on the eastern front, and many of them winning the highest medal for bravery in the German armed forces, the Knights Cross.

This eye opening historical video is a daring break from the all the typical “anti-German” videos and publications as it tries to show the real untold truth about the Axis dealings with foreigners, volunteers, minorities, helpers and other diverse international relations. He does quite well at telling the untold, unpopular AND startling truths of the real perspectives AND relations of Germans AND non-Germans during WWII. Unlike Hollywood AND the general media that just LOVES to project an inaccurate historical “pseudo truth” !!

This speech examines AND relates the real unclouded facts tainted by the “fantasy history entertainment” that is so popular today… Some people actually really believe that going to the movies AND reading books by those who won the war, etc.., is a history course made easy, simple AND fun !!

Yes.., and very sad to say.., “the beat goes on” (and on, and on).., as WW III will NOT be that much different from the first two that killed millions.., or that far off in the future !!

As always.., after watching.., do your best to “pass it on“…

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“He who Wins the War.., also Writes the History”

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THE

BLOODY

RED  STREAK

by

TREFOR  DAVID

Part 2

THE BRITONS PUBLISHING SOCIETY

46/48, PRINCEDALE ROAD, LONDON, W.11

1951

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Facts about the Author, Mr. Trefor David

Mobilized with the Glamorganshire Yeomanry in 1914.

Transferred to the Royal Field Artillery and served 2 1⁄2 years in France in World War I. Long record of public service. Member of Bridgend Urban District Council for 2 years, and of the Glamorganshire County Council for 1 year.

Long record of struggle against corruption in Local Government. Convicted 7 times for exposing corrupt practices in Local Government. Sentenced to 12 months’ hard labour in 1938 for activity in obtaining release of sane man from Bridgend Lunatic Asylum. Served in Swansea, Cardiff, Brixton and Birmingham Prisons.

No regrets of his efforts to cleanse public life of corruption and of his convictions for same.

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CONTENTS

What is Communism?………………………………………………………… 3

“Russia — Jews’ best friend!”………………………………….……..…… 4

Jewishness of Communism outside Russia ……………..…….…… 4

Jewishness of Communism in the BRITISH EMPIRE ………..… 5

Jewishness of Communism in the U.S.A. …………………………… 5

Jewishness of Communism in Holland, Belgium and France  6

Cominform and Cominform World “Peace” Movement …….… 6

But no Communism in Israel, and the Reason Why! …………. 7

Communist Leaders who are Gentiles are all Purged ……….… 7

Communism in Britain is Jewish Too ………………………………..… 7

Communism is Nothing to Do with the Working Class …….… 8

Communism is a Jewish Confidence Trick ……………………….… 9

No Trade Unions As We Know Them in Russia ………………… 10

Communist “Peace” Offensive …………………………………..…..… 11

Real Aim of “Peace” Offensive ……………………………………..…… 11

Why Communists Oppose German Re-Armament …….…… 12

Communism and Judaism are One and the Same ………….. 13

The Second Jewish World War ……………………………………..…. 14

Jews Admit it was a Jews’ War ……………………………………..…. 15

Jewish Gold Standard was Another Aim of Last War …….… 16

Present Position ……………………………………………………………..… 17

Jews Against Economic Nationalism …………………….……..…… 18

Money From Russia ……………………………………………………….… 19

Communist Hypocrisy in Last War …………………….…….……… 19

Freedom of Speech in Britain To-day ………………..………….…. 20

The Strange Case of Aneurin Bevan ………………………….……. 20

Was Hitler Right about the Jews? ………………………….….….…. 22

What the Jews Admit About Themselves ……………………..…. 22

“Cruel Pogroms of History: Their Authors, Victims” ……….… 23

What Jews Think of Us Gentiles ………………………….………..… 25

British Parliament To-day ………………………………………….…..… 27

Atomic Spies for Russia …………………………………………….…….. 28

Communist Jailed in Britain for Atomic Spying …………….…… 29

Jews fled to Iron Curtain with Atomic Secrets ……………..,… 29

Gentile Jailed ………………………………………………………….……….. 29

Gentile Who Fled to Iron Curtain with Secrets ……………….. 29

Conclusion …………………………………………………………………..….. 29

Call to Wales ……………………………………………..………………..….. 30

RECOMMENDED LIST OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

FOR FURTHER STUDY ……………………………….………….………… 31

PAMPHLETS ………………………………………………………………..…… 31

THE BLOODY RED STREAK

Jewish Gold Standard was Another Aim of Last War

Another war aim of the allies in the recent war was the maintenance of the gold standard. I do not need to tell my readers who owns all the gold in the world! I do not need to tell my readers, either, that all parties, whether Communist or Conservative, work the gold racket. You remember the announcement in the press recently that Russia had rigidly placed the rouble on a gold basis. Confirmed in the Daily Worker of 12th February, 1951.

It will also be remembered that Churchill, who proudly boasts that he has always been the constant architect of the Jews’ future, returned Britain to the gold standard in 1925, which led to the ghastly slump of 1929/1931. He was violently attacked by Phillip Snowdon in 1925 on behalf of the Labour Opposition for not having returned to it sooner. (Similarly the Jewish dominated Labour Party won the 1923 General Election on an anti-Protection ticket — i.e. they did not want British Industries and British Mines protected against Jew-financed cheap foreign goods and coal). The argument against gold is that being a scarce metal, if one’s currency is based on it, currency is naturally scarce. There may be plenty of food in the shops, raw materials and labour in the land, but insufficient currency because that currency is regulated by a metal too scarce to finance either full bellies or full employment; hence we always had at least a million unemployed between 1919 and 1939 while our currency was regulated by gold, and the highest percentage was in Wales. (Do not be misled by the lie that Britain went off the gold standard in 1931.)

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All that happened was we had a measure of depreciation). In time of war, of course, Britain went completely off gold and spent something like her real spending power — £15,000,000 a day — in killing her German brothers, but then the life of world-Jewry was at stake! That’s different of course! Why can’t we spend £15,000,000 a day in peace time on improving the conditions of the British working class? Why can we only spend it when fighting wars for the Jews?

Hitler went off the gold standard completely, both internally and externally. Internally he printed enough money to dissolve in a very short time his seven million unemployed which he inherited in 1933, and also to give them three square meals a day for the first time in their lives.

Put plainly, the secondary war aim of the allies was to save the gold standard. There are about 400 international financiers, mostly Jews, who between them in 1939 had cornered £7,000,000,000 worth of gold. Were Hitler’s economics to be copied by the rest of the world to the vast benefit of their hordes of unemployed, those 400 men stood to lose £7,000,000,000 of gold, which would become useless scrap metal overnight.

Present Position

Now we are no longer on an internal gold standard but all our foreign trade is regulated by a dollar standard, but, as dollars and gold are interchangeable, this is the gold standard as before. (Hitler used barter trading for any foreign trading necessary and short-circuited the great Jewish international trading houses which exercise such a deadly strangle-hold on all foreign trade, both to-day and before the war).

There are masses of food and raw material in the world but the democracies haven’t enough dollars or gold for them to be made available to their peoples. We returned to this dollar-gold standard by accepting the American loan and the Bretton Woods Agreement in Parliament on 13th December, 1945, which, needless to say, the Communists heartily supported. Gallacher, Piratin, Pritt, Platt Mills, Solley, the Silverman Bros., Driberg and all the other cryptos, Communists and Pinks in Parliament were to be found in the Aye lobby voting for the American Loan and Bretton Woods Agreement — See Hansard 13th December, 1945.

Now the Communists pretend they do not like being tied to American capitalism, although they themselves voted for it in the first place. The Communists voted for the American Loan and the Bretton Woods Agreement because these measures smashed wide open the great Empire trading block established by the Ottawa Imperial Preference Agreement in 1932. In fact Britain lost her empire to Wall Street Jewish finance, making a middle way between America and Russia difficult if not impossible. Now the Communists try and separate Britain from America, in which case Britain, no longer having an empire to fall back on economically, will be forced willy nilly into the arms of Uncle Joe Stalin.

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Jews Against Economic Nationalism

Another point worth remembering about the economic aims of the allies in the last war was their intention to smash the policy of economic nationalism advocated not only by Hitler but by all nationalist parties including those in Britain. In 1938, the City of London financiers,again predominantly Jewish, had invested in cheap labour foreign countries the gigantic sum of £3,600,000,000 of good British money. This was admitted in the last Parliament. They did so because the cheap labour of these countries got them bigger profits and bigger dividends more quickly than if the money had been invested in the more highly paid labour of Britain and the Empire. More often than not, these huge investments were actually equipping Britain’s foreign competitors against Britain herself, causing hordes of unemployed and bringing ruin to many honest British industrialists. But Jewish finance didn’t mind. The most that would happen would be that the unemployed might turn to Communism which was a Jewish confidence trick and would suit their book admirably.

And if the Communists were to nationalise any Jew capitalist, they would at once reinstate him as a Commissar — and in Russia Commissars have power of life and death over their workers — powers which even in the disgraceful epoch of child labour in the mines, British capitalists never had. The Nationalist parties of Britain which would inevitably have succeeded to power had there been no war in 1939 made it a cardinal point of their policy immediately to sell out £3,600,000,000 and re-invest it in British and Empire industries.

In other words, the British people stood to gain £3,600,000,000 were the Nationalist parties to achieve power in Britain. We all remember how the Rhondda suffered because Jewish financiers in the city of London preferred investing their money in cheaper labour Polish coal mines rather than in Wales. Do not for a moment imagine that the Communists intend to do anything about this. They are Jewish led and Jewish financed, and if they intend to soak the rich at all it will only be the rich Gentiles.

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Money From Russia

Although British Communists deny that they have ever received money from Russia, they are allowed by Lenin to use lies to us non- Communists, so we need not take them too seriously. Douglas Hyde, for 20 years a British Communist, and for 8 years on the staff of the Daily Worker where he became its News Editor, has stated, on page 7 of his book “The Answer to Communism,” that Russia gave the British Communist Party money to start it off, the last being in 1923.

Further, both Arthur Horner and Harry Pollitt have boasted that Russia has sent our miners a further one and a quarter million pounds to assist them in strikes. Here are their actual words: Arthur Horner on the front page of the Daily Worker of October 14th, 1948,

“It was thanks to the help received from miners abroad that British miners were able to hold out in their strikes in 1921 and 1926. It was thanks above all to the help of the Soviet Union, which sent us more than a million pound sterling.”

And Harry Pollitt in a signed article in the Daily Worker of January 17th, 1951,

“The miners of Britain have not forgotten that in 1926 the Soviet workers sent £1,250,000 unconditionally to the British miners in response to the appeal of the Miners’ Federation for assistance during the great lock-out.”

Speaking as a better Welshman than Harry Pollitt or than Moscow stooge Arthur Horner, I say that the miners of Wales want no Soviet gold or interference in their internal affairs and struggles — gold acquired at the expense of slave labour of Christians in Russia. The real cause of poverty and unemployment in Wales, leading up to the strikes of 1921 and 1926, was the international Jewish finance system, which I have briefly outlined in the section dealing with the recent war (above). As we now know, Jewish international finance is at the back of Communism, creating slumps on purpose to plunge the world into Communism. The Communist slave labour system gives Jewish finance bigger and quicker profits than the more highly paid and (Trade Union) protected labour of Democracy.

Communist Hypocrisy in Last War

Before concluding our analysis of the cause of the war, mention must be made of the revolting Communist record. Ever since 1933 the Communists were loudest in clamouring for war against Hitler. On the 3rd September, 1939, they approved the war as a sacred struggle against anti-Semitism. Then Douglas Springhall, national organiser of the British Communist Party, returned with new orders from Moscow and immediately the Communists denounced the war as a capitalist war. (The fact about Springhall bringing orders from Moscow is vouched for by Fred Copeman, ex-Communist, in his book Reason in Revolt, and by Mrs. Charlotte Haldane, ex-wife of ex-Communist Professor Haldane, in her book Truth Will Out, also Douglas Hyde in his book I Believed.

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A few years after this Comrade Springhall got 7 years’ jail for selling his country’s secrets to Russia). Then again, when Russia was attacked in June 1941, the war became a sacred struggle once more against anti-Semitism. The Daily Worker in an editorial on June 13, 1947,bluntly stated that the last war was fought to destroy anti-Semitism in its entirety, a simple way of saying it was fought for the Jews. It is significant, too, that when Springhall brought the new orders, Harry Pollitt and the present editor of the Daily Worker, J. R. Campbell, refused to toe the Moscow line and were immediately expelled from the British Communist Party which was taken over by its real boss, an upper-class Indian-Swede, Palme Dutt. But Pollitt and Campbell made grovelling public apologies to Moscow and were later reinstated.

Freedom of Speech in Britain To-day

It is a strange thing to-day in Britain that although we can criticise everything and everybody under the sun, whether Royalty or miners or Americans or South Africans, no-one dare mention the Jews. If one does, one is immediately accused of persecution and racial hatred. Why are we allowed to defend our country in wars against French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and Germans, and not allowed to defend it against the real men at the back of Communism, namely the Jews? Why do they fear criticism? Have they anything to hide? We Nationalists do not hate the Jews because they are Jews, but because they are trying to capture our country through Communism and to destroy our Christian faith. The Jew Rene Groos admitted in Le Nouveau Mercure, Paris, in May 1927, that “there is a Jewish conspiracy against all nations.”

The Strange Case of Aneurin Bevan

Consider for a moment the strange case of that “wild man from South Wales,” Mr. Aneurin Bevan. Look how he has criticised everyone under the sun with one exception: the Tories he calls “vermin”; he attacks Americans; he even on occasions mildly attacks Stalin, but there is one race which he has never attacked in spite of his reputation for extremism. Opening the Jewish Dolly Ross Holiday Home at Cliftonville, Kent, in June, 1950, he was reported in the Jewish Chronicle of June 30th, 1950, as saying,

“The star of David is very much in the ascendant at the present time, and I for one exult at seeing it become more and more luminous, because no-one who had his eyes open in the last 25 to 30 years can be unaware of the cataract of human misery thrown on the Jewish community.”

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So Aneurin Bevan exulted in seeing the star of David becoming more luminous! Where? At Nuremburg, where the atrocities of the Jews were thrown on to the shoulders of the British and the Americans — a bloody stain never to be erased? Was it luminous enough for Bevan and his colleagues when 350,000 civilians, mostly women and children, were brutally murdered in the bombing of Germany, when satisfactory peace terms could have been obtained which would have enabled Germany to be in a position to-day to deal with Jewish controlled Communism, thereby saving more British casualties? Or indeed, the star might have been more luminous in Bevan’s sight over the graves of our allies for whom we saw fit to declare war on Germany — the 10,000 murdered Polish officers found in the graves at Katyn, for instance.

Probably the star of David was not quite luminous enough for Aneurin when 900,000 Russians were massacred previous to the 30,000,000 starved to death since the Bolshevik Revolution.

So it took 25 to 30 years for our Cabinet Minister to see the cataract of human misery thrown on the Jewish community! Was it a Jewish cataract he had on both his eyes when he failed to see the Jews gradually forcing all true Britons out of their business premises; taking all the key positions in order to monopolise homes as key men? Aneurin boasts of the houses built under Socialist government: he ought to be made to say how many homes have been commandeered by Jewish alien immigrants into this country, while our boys and girls were fighting the Jewish war — with no homes to which to come back. Any fool can say how many Jews are working in the mines or on the farms.

Is it not a fact that the emigration drive of Britons is to make room for the immigrating Jews? Five hundred thousand Britons have emigrated since 1945, and almost the same number of aliens entered into Britain. Can we have the following information from the present Jew controlled Parliament:-

How many Jews are forced to work in the mines?

How many Jews are forced to work on the land?

How many Jews are there living on the fat of the land?

The greatest crime of which Hitler was guilty was to make the Jews work for their living. Aneurin Bevan knows that if he is to attain his pet ambition, and become Prime Minister, he must hold the candle to the Devil in the form of the star of David by appearing in the Jewish Chronicle, which is far more important to him than housing ex-service­ men’s families, who, according to men of his stomach, should emigrate to make room for the ever-increasing alien Jewish immigrants.

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Was Hitler Right about the Jews?

Whatever one’s views on Hitler’s methods of government may be, he did at least put the brake on Jewish control in Germany. He also purged and cleansed Germany of the filthy, rotting immoralities with which the Jews had permeated that land in their effort to destroy the moral fabric of the Gentiles. Hitler, in fact, prevented Germany becoming a second Russia and thus probably preserved the civilisation of Europe for many years. Nine out of ten people to-day when asked their views will say that Hitler was right about the Jews. Most people will also tell you that we should have made peace with Germany when Hess flew over here in 1941. Most people are saying that he was a brave man, as also was Goering who beat his hangman and the Jews to the punch by poisoning himself.

What the Jews Admit About Themselves

Jews themselves have admitted they 2make bad and disloyal citizens. The Jew Maurice Samuels, for instance, in his book You Gentiles (1924), said,

“We Jews are destroyers — even made everything foul, rotten, decomposed, and decayed. There is no way to eradicate our spirit.”

The Jewish Encyclopaedia, Volume IX, at the words “Nervous Diseases” reads:

“The Jews are more subject to diseases of the nervous system than the other races and peoples among which they dwell. Hysteria and neurasthenia appear to be the most frequent. Some physicians of large experience among Jews have gone so far as to state that most of them are neurasthenic and hysterical.”

Max Nordau, Zionist leader, says:

“We are neither Germans nor English nor French. We are JEWS. Your Christian mentality is not ours.”

The Jewish World, London, 22nd September, 1915, says:

“No one pretends that a Japanese or Indian child is English because it was born in England. The same thing applies to the Jews.”

The Jewish Courier and Jewish World, January 17th, 1924, says:

“Jews may adopt the costumes and language of the countries where they live; they will never become an integral part of the native population.”

“I confess it to you, openly and sincerely, … we who have posed as the saviours of the world, we who have even boasted of having given it ‘the’ Saviour, we are to-day nothing else but the world’s seducers, its destroyers, its incendiaries, its executioners. … We who have promised to lead you to a new Heaven, we have finally succeeded in landing you into a new hell.”

An extract from a letter by the well-known Jewish author, Dr. Oscar Levy, sent to Captain George Pitt-Rivers, of Worcester College, Oxford, which letter was published in full in the preface to the latter’s book, The World Significance of the Russian Revolution (1920).

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As for being persecutors, the Jews themselves are the biggest persecutors of all time. The Jew Samuel Roth says in his book, Jews Must Live, “We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.” And the following is an interesting extract from The Key to the Mystery by Adrien Arcand, great leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party:-

“Cruel Pogroms of History: Their Authors, Victims”

When Poles move to control trade in Poland, when Germans want to be judged and treated by German judges and doctors in Germany, when Rumanian peasants want to deal with Rumanian wholesalers in Rumania, when young Canadians want Canada to be developed first for the profit of Canadians, the Jews pushed away from a nation’s patrimony fill the world with their cries, they shout everywhere com­ plaints of onslaughts, massacres and pogroms.

It is curious, though, that Jews never mention the most cruel pogroms in history. Why? When one gives just a quick glance at history, the answer is easily found.

In antiquity, Jews indulged many times in horrible massacres of peoples and tribes living in their neighbourhood.

Under Ahashuerus, they caused 70,000 Gentiles to be murdered in just one day, which they still celebrate under the name of Purim.

On the eve of their flight from Egypt, massacre of the first-born son of all Egyptian families. At the birth of Jesus Christ, massacre of the Holy Innocent children throughout Palestine, in the hope of killing the infant Redeemer.

Jews force a death sentence on Jesus by Pontius Pilate.

The stoning of St. Stephen.

They persecuted the apostles and caused most of them to be martyred.

Nero had as first adviser the Jew Attilius and for his favourite, the Jewess Poppea, both of whom incited him to murder hundreds of thousands of Christians.

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In the Jewish book Sepher Juchasin (Amsterdam 1717) it is stated that in the time of the Pope Clemenius (A.D. 91-100), the Jews killed, in and outside Rome, “crowds of Christians innumerable as the sands of the sea.”

Dion Cassius, the great historian, in his “Roman History” (translation by Anthoine de Bandole, 1660), wrote:

“In that time, the Jews who lived along Cyrenea, having for their captain a certain Andreas, killed all the Greeks and Romans, ate their flesh and entrails, bathed in their blood and dressed with their skins. They very cruelly killed some of them, sawing them from the top of their heads down through the middle of the body; they threw some to the beasts and forced others to fight one against the other; so much so that they brought death to 220,000. A similar cruelty they showed in Egypt and in the island of Cyprus, under a certain Artemion, their leader in barbary. In Cyprus, they slaughtered 240,000 persons, in consequence of which they can no more set foot on the island.”

A marginal note of the great French historian Guizot, in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire reads thus:-

“In Cyrenea, Jews slaughtered 220,000 Greeks, 240,000 in the isle of Cyprus, and in Egypt a great multitude of people. Most of the miserable victims were sawed alength, according to the example which David had authorized by his conduct.”

The Jewish book Sepher Hadoroth tells us that Rabbenu Jehuda was in the favour of emperor Antoninus the Pious.

“Rabbenu told him that the malice of the Nazareans was the cause of a pestilential malady and obtained the execution of all Nazareans who were in Rome in the year 3915 (A.D. 155).”

The same book tells us that it was through the influence of the Jews that, in the year 177, Marcus-Aurelius “put to death all the Nazareans that he could.” (Among the latter Nazareans were Saint Pothinius and 47 of his faithful, of whom Saint Blandina and the Christians Macturus and Sanctus).

The same Jewish book tells us how the Jews could get still “more fun” under emperor Caracalla, the ferocious beast of Ansonia. The Sepher Hadoroth also states that in the year 3974 (A.D. 214),

“the Jews killed 200,000 Christians in Rome and all Christians of Cyprus.”

The Jewish Sepher Juchasin also states, on page 108:

“Upon the desire of the Jews, Diocletian killed a great many Christians, among whom were the Popes Caius and Marcellinus, as well as the brother of Caius and his sister Rosa.”

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Mahomet was killed by a Jewess, Czars Alexander I and Alexander II were killed by Jews, as well as Czar Nicholas II and his Czarina, his Czarevitch and his four daughters, Alexander of Y ugoslavia and Barthou by the Jew Peter Kalmen, Huey Long by the Jew Weiss, Archduke Francis-Ferdinand by the Jew Princip, the Archduke Rodolph by a Jewess: a Jew (Dr. Don Rug Lopez, alias Wolf) hanged in England for an attempt to murder Queen Elizabeth; the Jew Ravaillac assassinated King Henri IV; among a long list of Judaeo-Masonic murders are noticed those of Gustav II, Louis X V I and his family, Rossi, Garcia Moreno, King Carlos, President Doumer, De Lambrecht, Mores, Judge Prince, General Koutiepov, Felix Faure, Abraham Lincoln, Stolypin, Count Tisza, etc., etc. (and recently Count Bernadotte, the Swedish U.N.O. mediator in Palestine — T.D.).

Terrible pogrom of Hungarian Christians by the Jewish dictators Bela Kuhn and Tibor Szamuely during their 4-month reign in Buda-Pest, 1918.

Pogrom of Germans in Bavaria about the same time, when the Munich hostages were massacred by Jews Kurt Eisner, Levine, Levin.

Immense Judaeo-Communist Pogrom in China, where ten million human beings have died as direct result of the Jewish Bolshevik plan in the last fifteen years. Terrible slaughters and artificial famines.

Pogrom in Brazil, where the Jewish plotters of Sao Paulo caused the deaths of hundreds of Christian patriots.

Pogrom in Spain where 400,000 Spaniards have been killed brutally for their faith and opinions, apart from those killed on the battlefields, in the last 12 months, under the reign of Jews sent to Madrid by the Komintern. (Notably Bela Kuhn — T.D.).

The most murderous and considerable pogrom in human history: that of Soviet Russia, where 1,900,000 Christian Russians were executed in the first 18 months of the Red Terror, under the reign of the Jews Trotsky, Sverdlov, Zinoviev, Kamanev, Joffe, Litvinov, Kaganovitch (Stalin’s brother-in-law), Levine, Rappaport, Parvus-Helphand, Garin, Radek-Sobelsohn, Kalmanovitch, Smirdovitch and other Soviet dictators (more than 90% of whom were Jews); where thirty million persons have died of starvation or of epidemics consequent on famine, according to the figures of Dr. Fritjof Nansen, President of the Nansen Commission, official of the International Red Cross Society.

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Those are only the best known pogroms inflicted by Jews on Christians. The history of antiquity, of the middle ages, of modern times is filled with mentions of such pogroms of individuals and whole populations. And when Jews were punished for those crimes, they nowhere suffered one-tenth of the evils they had inflicted upon races which had given them hospitality.

As the Jew Samuel Roth says in his book Jews Must Live, and as they appear in history,

“Jews are a tribe of ‘most deadly persecutors,’ not a persecuted minority as they pretend. Through propaganda, they have tried to convince public opinion of the contrary, but facts and history stand as their accusers, even their own authors and publications.” (End of Arcand’s quotation).

What Jews Think of Us Gentiles

My readers might also like to know what Jews think of us Gentiles. The following are five extracts from the Talmud, the Jewish Bible:-

“You (the Jews) shall be called Men, but the other peoples in the world shall not be called Men but cattle.”(Baba mezia, page 144b).

“The non-Jews are created for the service of the Jew. They must plow, sow, weed, dig, mow, bind, sift and grind. The Jews are created to find all this prepared for them.” (Berachoth, page 58a).

“It is in every respect permitted to mislead the non-Jew and cheat him. The Jew may sell counterfeits as genuine to the non-Jew. He (the Jew) may cheat him when paying out money to him.” (Baba kamma 113b).

“If a Jew can rob a Goy (non-Jew) of his possessions he shall do so, because Yahweh (God) has exposed the possessions of the Goys to the Jews.” (Baba kamma fol. 37b).

“All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples.” (Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamisphat 348).

In view of these laws, who will now say that Hitler was not taking a wise step on behalf of his people when he insisted that Jews were to wear the Star of David and have it clearly displayed on all their shops?

British Parliament To-day (September 1951)

The following is a list of Jews in the British Parliament to-day:

Labour M.P.s (27):

G. R. Strauss (Millionaire capitalist).

Emanuel Shinwell.

J. Strachey (a quarter Jewish — old Etonian).

Sir Frank Soskice (half Jewish).

F. Messer.

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I. Mikardo (who signed the Communist Peace Petition recently. the object of which is to deny Britain the atom bomb to defend herself against Russia).

M. Orbach (a known pro-Communist).

J. Silverman.

S. S. Silverman (presented Communist ““Peace” Petition to Parliament 12.12.50).

Dr. B. Stross (an official of the Communist Front British Czech Society).

M. Turner Samuels, K.C.

D. Weitzman.

Major Wilkes.

A. Albu.

J. Diamond.

M. Edelman.

M. Follick.

Mrs. Ganley

B. Janner.

C. Jeger.

S. W. Jeger

L. M. Lever.

Ν. H. Lever.

J. Lewis.

Col. M. Lipton.

J. D. Mack.

W. G. Mackay (probably).

(Mackay is a rich man and a great supporter of Western Union, which was originated by the slick American Jew lawyer Lilienthal; and who also wants us to quit Malaya and Hong Kong so as, presumably, to let the Communists in).

How many of these are secret Communists I cannot say.

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Tory Jew Μ.Ρ.s (3):

W. Fletcher.

G. Nabarro.

N. Bower (who has spoken on behalf of Communist China recently).

At the 1950 elections, not less than 10% of the Communist candidates were Jews, which was an even higher percentage than Labour!

Atomic Spies for Russia

The following is a list of all men arrested or convicted for atomic espionage for Russia, or who have fled from the West to Russia for sanctuary with atomic secrets.

Jews Jailed in Canadian Spy Case:

Rose (Canadian Communist M.P.).

Carr (Organiser, Canadian Communist Party).

Both jailed for selling secrets to Russia.

Jews and Jewesses Arrested in the U.S.A.

Harry Gold (now sentenced to 30 years’ jail).

David Greenglass.

Julius Rosenberg.

Mrs. Greenglass Rosenberg.

Abraham Brotham.

Miriam Moscowitz.

Morton Sobell.

A. D.Slack.

Note:- The Jew Dr. Sidney Weinbaum has also been sentenced to imprisonment for falsely denying he was a member of the American Communist Party on entering the U.S. Atomic Energy Station.

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Communist Jailed in Britain for Atomic Spying

Dr. Fuchs (to whom we trustingly gave shelter when he came here before the war saying he was “persecuted” by Hitler, is of Jewish appearance. He became a naturalised British subject and obtained employment on the atom bomb. He then betrayed our atomic secrets to Russia, and has now been jailed).

Jews fled to Iron Curtain with Atomic Secrets:

Dr. Leopold Infeld (who fled from Canada to Poland with atomic secrets). Professor Bruno Pontecorvo (who fled from Britain to Russia).

Gentile Jailed

Professor Raymond Boyer (jailed for revealing secrets to Russian agents; Boyer became a Jew on marrying a Jewess, but they are already divorced).

Gentile Who Fled to Iron Curtain with Secrets

Lajos Janossy (who fled from Ireland after having worked at Harwell, to Hungary. We include him as a Gentile to show our impartiality, but Janossy is a well-known Jewish name and he is also believed to have a Jewish wife).

TOTAL of above:- 14 Jews and Jewesses, 2 Gentiles.

In view of these startling facts, would it not be wise to purge all the key Jewish scientists from our atomic station at Harwell in the interest of national security, and there are very many of them (14 in fact) under the control of the Jew Minister of Supply, G. R. Strauss, M.P.

Conclusion

Fellow countrymen: our country is in mortal danger but there is one way and one way only by which it can yet be saved and by which war can be averted. Spread the truth about the nature of Communism. Make your Editors, your M.P.s, your Councillors, reveal to the world that it is nothing less than a Jewish ramp. Demand that the truth about Communism be told. Russia can be defeated without a war, simply by helping her patriots to liberate themselves from their Jewish masters. An anti-Jewish revolution in Russia will mean world peace. There is in the Free Britain Movement a more explosive and more powerful weapon than the atom or even the hydrogen bomb — the weapon of truth. Work with us and the Free Britain Movement with the following four aims:

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(1) National Regeneration. Britain must be purged of all the sordid filth with which she has been flooded. As we know, all great cities like London, Cardiff and Glasgow are nothing more than cesspools of vice.

(2) Widest possible diffusion of wealth. W e support co-partnership and profit sharing in industry with the abolition of all absentee shareholding. This is true socialism as opposed to nationalisation which replaces the private boss by the soulless bureaucrat. As everyone knows, for instance, no miner is satisfied with the National Coal Board.

(3) Rigid economic self-sufficiency within the British Empire. We shall make no attempt to compete with cheap labour foreign countries in an insane capitalist dogfight for rapidly dwindling sellers’ markets. This merely means that wages at home are lowered in order to cheapen goods being sold abroad. Even thus we could not hope to meet competition like Japanese, German and American, let alone that of the Iron Curtain countries, whose slave labour system makes their goods dirt cheap compared with ours.

(4) The expulsion of all Jews from Britain. For years the Jews have wanted Palestine as a country of their own. Now they have got it, they apparently do not want to go there, as countries like Britain and America, and Europe generally are too much like lucrative gold mines for them. Let us insist that Jews must go to Israel. Let us, in fact, call their bluff over it.

Call to Wales

We call upon all Britons of whatever class and creed to rally with us in Wales and make this country a great and God-loving nation once again.

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THE

BLOODY

RED  STREAK

by

TREFOR  DAVID

Part 1

THE BRITONS PUBLISHING SOCIETY

46/48, PRINCEDALE ROAD, LONDON, W.11

1951

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Facts about the Author, Mr. Trefor David

Mobilized with the Glamorganshire Yeomanry in 1914.

Transferred to the Royal Field Artillery and served 2 1⁄2 years in France in World War I. Long record of public service. Member of Bridgend Urban District Council for 2 years, and of the Glamorganshire County Council for 1 year.

Long record of struggle against corruption in Local Government. Convicted 7 times for exposing corrupt practices in Local Government. Sentenced to 12 months’ hard labour in 1938 for activity in obtaining release of sane man from Bridgend Lunatic Asylum. Served in Swansea, Cardiff, Brixton and Birmingham Prisons.

No regrets of his efforts to cleanse public life of corruption and of his convictions for same.

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CONTENTS

What is Communism?………………………………………………………… 3

“Russia — Jews’ best friend!”………………………………….……..…… 4

Jewishness of Communism outside Russia ……………..…….…… 4

Jewishness of Communism in the BRITISH EMPIRE ………..… 5

Jewishness of Communism in the U.S.A. …………………………… 5

Jewishness of Communism in Holland, Belgium and France  6

Cominform and Cominform World “Peace” Movement …….… 6

But no Communism in Israel, and the Reason Why! …………. 7

Communist Leaders who are Gentiles are all Purged ……….… 7

Communism in Britain is Jewish Too ………………………………..… 7

Communism is Nothing to Do with the Working Class …….… 8

Communism is a Jewish Confidence Trick ……………………….… 9

No Trade Unions As We Know Them in Russia ………………… 10

Communist “Peace” Offensive …………………………………..…..… 11

Real Aim of “Peace” Offensive ……………………………………..…… 11

Why Communists Oppose German Re-Armament …….…… 12

Communism and Judaism are One and the Same ………….. 13

The Second Jewish World War ……………………………………..…. 14

Jews Admit it was a Jews’ War ……………………………………..…. 15

Jewish Gold Standard was Another Aim of Last War …….… 16

Present Position ……………………………………………………………..… 17

Jews Against Economic Nationalism …………………….……..…… 18

Money From Russia ……………………………………………………….… 19

Communist Hypocrisy in Last War …………………….…….……… 19

Freedom of Speech in Britain To-day ………………..………….…. 20

The Strange Case of Aneurin Bevan ………………………….……. 20

Was Hitler Right about the Jews? ………………………….….….…. 22

What the Jews Admit About Themselves ……………………..…. 22

“Cruel Pogroms of History: Their Authors, Victims” ……….… 23

What Jews Think of Us Gentiles ………………………….………..… 25

British Parliament To-day ………………………………………….…..… 27

Atomic Spies for Russia …………………………………………….…….. 28

Communist Jailed in Britain for Atomic Spying …………….…… 29

Jews fled to Iron Curtain with Atomic Secrets ……………..,… 29

Gentile Jailed ………………………………………………………….……….. 29

Gentile Who Fled to Iron Curtain with Secrets ……………….. 29

Conclusion …………………………………………………………………..….. 29

Call to Wales ……………………………………………..………………..….. 30

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FOR FURTHER STUDY ……………………………….………….………… 31

PAMPHLETS ………………………………………………………………..…… 31

THE BLOODY RED STREAK

The third World War appears to be almost on top of us. For this, the responsibility must be placed (1) on the shoulders of Communism, and (2) on the shoulders of our insane “politicians,” both Labour and Conservative, who so foolishly plunged us into war on the 3rd September, 1939, with no British interests whatsoever involved, on behalf of international Jewry against the Germans, who were Europe’s only bastion against Russia. Let us consider Communism first.

What is Communism?

Communism was invented by the German Jew Karl Marx one hundred years ago. Of the 135 revolutionaries sent into Russia in a sealed train in 1917, no less than 128 were Jews, mostly from New York. The U.S. Senate Overman Report, 1919, stated that the first Central Bolshevik Government of Russia consisted of 371 Jews, 1 American Negro and 17 Russians.

The Central Committee of the “Russian” Communist Party in 1935 consisted of 56 Jews out of a total of 59, the three solitary Gentiles, one of them Stalin, having Jewish wives. In the “Russian” Politburo of 13 to-day, Kaganovitch (Stalin’s brother- in-law), Beria (Secret Police Chief), and Shvernik (Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium) are Jews, while Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov are married to Jewesses.

The U.S. Jewish paper, B’nai B’rith Messenger of March 3rd, 1950, quotes a statement of a former Red Army General now living in the U.S.A. that Stalin himself is of Jewish ancestry. On page 14 of his book The Life of Stalin, Iman Raguza states that Stalin’s maternal grandfather was a Jew junk peddler. Of the 18 man Supreme Soviet Presidium, at least 8 are Jews and these include the four key positions of Chairman (Shvernik), Secretary (A. F. Gorkin), and Deputy Chairmen (Kirchenstein and Vares).

Other leading figures in Soviet Russia to-day who are Jews are:—

Ilya Ehrenburgh (chief propagandist and mouthpiece of the Kremlin);

Fratkine Schmul (liquidation of anti-Communist persons and movements outside Russia);

Varga (economist — now on loan to Hungary for purge of Hungarian Communist Party);

Z. Mekhlis (Ex-Minister of State Control, head of Red Army Political Commissars and late Editor of Pravda);

Solomon Lozovsky (Director of Information — Lozovsky is responsible for ensuring that only news which “proves” Russia is a workers’ Paradise leaves the U.S.S.R.);

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Gorshenin (Minister of Justice);

D. Y. Raizer (Minister for Construction of Heavy Industry);

P. A. Judin (Minister for Building Materials);

S. Y. Fomin (Minister of Construction of Machinery for Industries);

D. I. Fomin (Minister of State Food Reserves);

Lavrentiev (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs);

Nossenko (Deputy Minister of Shipbuilding Industry);

Kaftanov (Minister for Higher Education);

Ginzburg (President of State Bank);

Levitsky (Deputy Chairman of Council of Nationalities);

and “the most unusual man in the Kremlin” according to the London evening Star of 6th September, 1948;

Vladimir Asberg, formerly of the Nye Banken, Stockholm, who financed the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 in conjunction with the Warburgs (Jews) in Germany and their affiliated group Kuhn Loeb, of New York.

Kuhn Loeb is the most powerful Jewish international banker in the world.

Ilya Ehrenburg, Jew, is the Member of the Russian Parliament for RIGA in Latvia. At the recent Russian General “Election,” this Jew was the only candidate allowed for RIGA.

Latvia was invaded by Russia in 1939 and forcibly annexed.

Ehrenburg has never been to Latvia in his life and can’t speak Latvian! Such is the wonderful “Democracy” of Communist Russia!

“Russia — Jews’ best friend!”

The Israeli Leader Moshe Sneh was quoted in the Jewish Chronicle of 2nd July, 1948, as saying

“Every Jew knew in his heart who was his greatest and most consistent friend — the Soviet Republic.”

Yankee Jew Dr. Louis G. Reynolds went further — he said (see the July 5th, 1946, issue of California Jewish Voice)

“I cannot conceive of any Jew in the role of an enemy of the Soviet Union. To me, such a Jew is an unnatural monstrosity, a travesty of everything that is decent and right.”

Jewishness of Communism outside Russia

Seven of the Polish Communist Politburo of eleven are Jews under the dictatorship of the rich upper middle class Jew, Jacob Berman. The Deputy Dictator is the Jew Colonel Ochab. The Times on August 10th, 1949, stated that 9 out of the 11 members of the Communist Cabinet of Poland were of the middle class.

In Hungary, the Communist Dictator is the Jew Rakosi, and until recently his communist cabinet consisted of 5 Jews and 1 Gentile — the Foreign Minister Laslo Rajk (see News Review, 16th December, 1948).

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The Times of 20th June, 1949, also stated that there was only one Gentile (Rajk) among the leaders of the Hungarian Communist Party. Since then, the solitary Gentile, Laslo Rajk, has been hanged, and according to The Times of 20th June, 1949, and the Jewish Chronicle of 23rd September, 1949, one of his “crimes” was anti- Semitism.

In Czechoslovakia the Communist Dictator is the Jew Slansky, while 5 of the 8-man “Czech” Communist Politburo are Jews. In Rumania, the Communist Dictatoress is the Jewess Anna Pauker. The Communist Dictator of the Ukraine is the Jew Manuilsky and its President is the Jew Korneichuk. It will be remembered that this Jew President of the Ukraine came to London in June, 1950, at the request of the British Communist Party and in a speech with the Negro Paul Robeson told British workers to sabotage their country’s defences against Russia. A few months later, the “British” Communist Party asked another big Jew from Russia to come and do the same in Trafalgar Square (Ilya Ehrenburg).

The head of the six million strong South American Labour Confederation is the Jewish millionaire Toledano.

Jewishness of Communism in the BRITISH EMPIRE

South Africa’s first Communist M.P. is the Jew Sam Kahn, while the Chairman of the “South African” Communist Party is the Jew I. Horwitz. In Canada, most of those involved in Soviet espionage were found to be Canadian Jews, while Canada’s Communist M.P. (Rose), and the organiser of the Communist Party (Carr), both Jews, have now been jailed for selling atom secrets to Russia.

Jewishness of Communism in the U.S.A.

The top Communist intellectuals in the U.S.A. are the Jews A. Kahn and A. Bittelman. Of the 11 leading American Communists sentenced for conspiracy 6 are Jews and 2 are Negroes.

The Editor of the American Daily Worker is Israel Ragenstrich, although he now calls himself John Gates, while the Jew Bart is its Managing Director. The London Jewish Chronicle of September 8th,1950, attacked U.S. Congressman John Rankin for saying that 75% of American Communists were Jews, but it did not even attempt to dispute his statement. The Jew Gerhart Eisler (Chief Comintern spy in the U.S.A., until, recently, he escaped to Britain), now heads the Press and Censorship Department of the Russian Zone of Germany.

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Although the Communists are supposed to be against Wall Street, the great Wall Street Jew multi-millionaire banker Herbert Lehman (Lehman Bros.) violently attacked the Bill aimed at outlawing the American Communist Party in the U.S. Senate in September, 1950.

There are so many Jewish Communists in New York that a special Communist daily newspaper entitled the Morning Freiheit is published for them in Yiddish. It has a larger circulation than the American Daily Worker. The London Jewish Clarion of September,1948, admitted that of the 10 leading Communist spies unearthed by the un-American Activities Committee, 8 were Jews.

Jewishness of Communism in Holland, Belgium and France

The Editor of the Dutch Communist paper Truth is the Jew F. Schoonenberg, while in Belgium the Communist daily Red Flag is edited by the Jew F. Coenen. Of the Executive of the “French” Communist Party, no less than 4 are Jews, while Jacques Duclos, its real leader, is married to a Jewess.

Cominform and Cominform World “Peace” Movement

The Editor of the Cominform weekly paper For a Lasting Peace, For a People’s Democracy, is the Jew P. Judin. The President of the Cominform World “Peace” Committee is the Jew Professor Joliot-Curie, who also runs the Cominform “Peace” movement in France. The “artist” who drew the “Peace” dove for the Cominform is the Spanish Communist Jew Pablo Picasso. The head of the Cominform “Peace”

Movement in the Argentine is the Communist Jew psychiatrist Dr. Bermann. A key member of the Cominform World “Peace” Committee representing Britain is the Jewish millionaire aristocrat the Honourable Ivor Montagu. The Jew Arnold Zweig is President of the “Peace” Movement in the Russian Zone of Germany. An amusing incident in January, 1950, revealed the true nature of the Cominform World “Peace” Movement — the Deputy Leader of the Christian Democrat Union in the Russian Zone of Germany, Professor Hugo Hickmann, made a speech urging German neutrality in an East-West conflict, and for doing so was immediately purged by the Communists as a “warmonger.”

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But no Communism in Israel, and the Reason Why!

There is naturally only a minute Communist Party in Israel. Communism is a method whereby Jews take your country away from you — they don’t, of course, want it in their own.

Communist Leaders who are Gentiles are all Purged

It is significant, too, that the recent purges of senior European Communist leaders have all been confined to Gentiles, namely:

RAJK — Hungarian Foreign Minister, hanged.

GOMULKA — Polish Vice-Premier, purged and awaiting “trial.”

DJODJE — Albanian Vice-Premier, shot. KOSTOV — Bulgarian Vice-Premier, hanged.

TITO — Yugoslavia, expelled from Cominform.

MARKOS — Greek Communist Army leader, purged.

CLEMENTIS — Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, purged and relegated to a minor post in the Bank, and then arrested, now about to be “tried” and will obviously be “liquidated.”

Communism in Britain is Jewish Too

In Britain, the Jews, the Hon. Ivor Montagu, son of the Broad Street, London, International financier, Samuel Montagu, the Jewess Tamara Rust (head of the Women’s Section of the British Communist Party), the “intellectual” Andrew Rothstein, and ex-M.P. Piratin are next only in real importance to Britain’s Communist dictator-designate, Rajani Palme Dutt — an upper-class Indian Swede of public school and Oxford education. The Foreign Editor of the Daily Worker is the Jew Derek Kartun, and the Daily Worker correspondent with the Communists in Korea and China is the Jew Alan Winnington. The leaders of the 1949 British dock strike were seven Jews, five of whom were imported from abroad.

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Harry Pollitt, Willie Gallacher, Arthur Horner, Alf Davis and Idris Cox are all Gentile stooges behind whom stand the real leaders of the British Communist Party — Palme Dutt, with not a drop of British or working-class blood in him, and the Jews Andrew Rothstein, Phil. Piratin, the Hon. Ivor Montagu and Mrs. Tamara Rust. The Hon. Ivor Montagu, that self-styled champion of the workers, has not a drop of working-class blood in him either and went to a posh top-hat public school. The Jewess Tamara Rust, is scheduled to be Dictatoress over British including Welsh women (like the Jewess Anna Pauker in Rumania) in the event of Russia forcing Communism on us by War.

Incidentally, another Left Wing and self-styled champion of the British working class, Mr. K. Zilliacus, like Palme Dutt, has not a drop of British ox, working-class blood in him. He comes of upper-class Finnish- American parents and was educated at an expensive co-educational public school in England and at Yale University.

At the annual 1946 conference of the British Labour Party, no fewer than seven out of the 12 speakers on British foreign policy were aliens — Mr. Zilliacus and six Jews. All took a pro-Communist line. Durham Miners’ leader Paddy Cowan has been violently attacked in the Jewish and Communist Press for saying at the annual 1949 conference of the “British” Labour Party, “Why can’t we have Britishers in Parliament?”

Communism is Nothing to Do with the Working Class

Communism is, of course, nothing whatsoever to do with the working class. The working class figures only in the abstract in Communist propaganda, but in Communist revolutions the working class do the dirty work for their Jewish masters. If the revolution succeeds the Jews ride to power on the backs of the working class. If the revolution fails, the working class go to jail or the firing squad and the gallows. We can see the truth of the anti-working-class nature of Communism by the presence in Britain and Western Europe of hundreds of thousands of Polish, Ukrainian, Yugo-Slav and even Russian workers, all of whom have fled from the so-called workers’ paradises of Russia and Eastern Europe and who would rather commit suicide than return. It will also be remembered that when Madame Kasenkina, Russian schoolmistress at the Russian Consulate in New York, heard that she was returning to the “workers’ Paradise,” she hurled herself out of a skyscraper window in an effort to commit suicide. Her boss was the Jew Jacob Lomakin, “Russian” Consul General in New York.

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We also know that the Germans had a free Russian Army of 800,000 fighting for them in the last war under the command of the Russian Nationalist General Vlassov, and Moscow radio itself announced in June, 1946, that the republic of Crimea had been liquidated for going over en masse to the German National Socialists, whom they welcomed as liberators (see The Times, 27 June, 1946). We also know that to-day, in spite of the Red Army and the Secret Police, there are hundreds of thousands of nationalist guerillas active in Eastern Europe, particularly in the Ukraine. Russia had in fact the biggest “fifth column” of any country in the last war — except that her “fifth column” consisted of Nationalists, Patriots and Christians trying to free their country from the Jewish Bolshevism.

Because the Jews have throughout every age and in every country been universally noted for their genius of salesmanship, they have been able to sell the workers’ hell of Russia as a workers’ paradise. The Jews can sell not only phoney goods in shops but phoney ideologies. The fact that the truth about the Jewishness of Communism is not more widely known is due to the cringing cowardice of the British and World press at mentioning the word Jew. The last daily paper to mention the Jewishness of Communism was the Morning Post which was killed in the 1930’s. The great historian Hilaire Belloc summed the whole thing up in “G.K.’s Weekly” of 4th February, 1937, as follows:-

“As for anyone who does not know that Bolshevism in Russia is Jewish I can only say he must be taken in by the suppressions of our deplorable press.”

How can Communism be a working-class dictatorship when it is run by Jews? How can it be a working-class dictatorship when The Times on August 10th, 1949, admitted that of the 11 members of the Polish Communist Cabinet, 9 were of the middle-class? (This includes the Jew Dictator Berman — T.D.) The Times of 6th July, 1949, further reported that Hungarian Communists had been criticised for “not having a single working man among their friends!”

Communism is a Jewish Confidence Trick

Communism is, in fact, a confidence trick whereby Jews acquire a nation’s wealth by pretending to nationalise it for the working classes. Communist leaders themselves make no bones about this — after they get into power, of course! For instance, Matyas Rakosi, Jew Communist Dictator of Hungary to-day of an all-Communist Cabinet of 5 Jews whose sole Gentile Laslo Rajk was hanged for anti-Semitism (a clue as to what may happen to the Gentile stooges Pollitt, Gallacher, Cox, Alf Davies and Horner), plainly stated as recently as the 31st May, 1949, in a violent attack on the Hungarian working class for slackness, that socialism does not imply equality, and jeered at them for foolishly supposing that the shares of the factories should be taken over and divided among themselves.

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A report of this speech can be found in The Times of the 3rd June, 1949. In other words, before the Communist revolution, the Jews say they will nationalise everything and give all the profits to the workers and also make everyone equal, but after the Communist revolution they say the same thing as Rakosi said above and attack the workers for being suckers and slackers. (Note:- Socialism is the name given to the regime in Communist Russia and in all Communist countries. Communists deliberately tell the workers that the “ideal” of Communism will take very many years to attain. They do this so as to dangle a kind of carrot in front of the workers to spur them on to work for a vague Utopia which is always just around the corner. In another thousand years the Jews will still be telling the Russian workers that the “paradise” of Communism is “just around the corner.” Jews, of course, hate real Communism or Socialism (which we define as the greatest possible diffusion of wealth), hence their hatred of Hitler who introduced profit sharing in his factories).

Ex-Soviet diplomat, Theodore Butenko, who fled from Rumania in 1938, described Communism bluntly in the Giornale D’ltalia of 17th February, 1938:-

“The Bolsheviks have promised to give the workers the industries, mines, etc., and to make them masters of the country. In reality, never has the working-class suffered such privations as those brought about by the so-called epoch of ‘socialisation.’ In place of the former capitalists, a new ‘bourgeoisie’ has been formed, composed of 100% Jews. All the big industries and factories, war products, railways, big and small trading, are virtually and effectively in the hands of the Jews.”

No Trade Unions As We Know Them in Russia

The Jew is hindered under democracy in his lust for maximum profits by the trade unions who protect the worker and enable him to bargain for a share of the wealth available. Under Communism, the function of the trade unions is simply reversed. Instead of protecting the workers against exploitation, it now acts as an instrument of the exploiting Communist State (the Jews Kaganovitch, Beria, Rakosi, Pauker and the rest) to crush the workers, to extend hours of work to a maximum, reduce wages to a minimum — to squeeze the last rouble of profit out of them. Further, the peculiarly Communist technique of depriving workers and civilians of their civil rights under the slightest pretext, and then using them as slave-labour, has enabled the Jew rulers of Russia to build up the greatest profit-making force ever known in history — 20,000,000 slave-labourers who are paid no wages at all. Hence most Jews back Communism, not democracy.

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The trade unions are kept on under Communism for three reasons:

(1) As an instrument (already in the factories) of the Jewish ruling class now to screw down the workers;

(2) For the Jews to swipe for themselves political levies paid in by trusting trade unionists; and

(3) To fool the workers into believing they have a semblance of protection.

All strikers are, of course, shot under Communism.

Communist “Peace” Offensive

We have already given the names of the Jewish leaders of the World “Peace” Offensive. To these should be added the name of Ilya Ehrenburg, who runs it in Russia. In Britain the three leaders are:- the Jew millionaire aristocrat, the Hon. Ivor Montagu; Professor J. G. Crowther; and Mr. D. N. Pritt, an extremely wealthy barrister educated at an exclusive public school (W inchester) and at foreign universities. Mr. Pritt, it will be remembered, was expelled from the Labour Party for his support of Russia’s foul invasion of little Finland in 1939. (The Daily Worker of January 29th, 1951, described this war as “the Finns’ Winter War against the Soviet Union in 1939 and 1940!”).

Real Aim of “Peace” Offensive

Let no-one mistake the real aims of the “Peace” Offensive. This is simply an instrument of the Cominform to deprive the countries next on the list for invasion by Russia of the weapons with which to defend themselves, and also to induce in those countries a spirit of defeatism. Let no-one for a moment think Communism stands for peace. Communism stands for a war of world conquest. Let no-one think, as the Rev. Donald Soper, Methodist Minister, thinks, that Communism is preferable to another war. Our geographical position precludes neutrality: the Communists know this full well and are using the British people’s desire for peace to get them in effect to surrender to Russia and to sabotage their defences in preparation for a Russian invasion. They intend to use Britain as advanced war base and Red Air Force aircraft carrier with which to atom bomb our American allies in a Soviet war of world conquest. Britain will, in that eventuality, be of course subject to atomic, germ, and hydrogen bombing by America in retaliation. But British Communists would not mind one rap about that, for their allegiance is not to Britain but to Russia. They aim to use Britain as a gigantic atomic cushion or shock absorber to take America’s limited supply of atomic, germ and hydrogen bombs which might otherwise fall on their precious motherland of Russia.

Communists the world over, including English and Welsh Communists, make no secret that Russia is their country and not England or Wales.

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Why Communists Oppose German Re-Armament

The Communists in our midsts are opposing the Atlantic Pact with Western Europe and America because they want the Red Army to conquer Britain and put them in power. They know they were heavily defeated at the General Election of 1950, and now see no other way of coming to power. They are doing their best to sabotage Britain’s defence programme. They oppose German re-armament for similar reasons. Only the immediate healing of the Jew-created quarrel with our German brothers, and the immediate re-arming of Germany can prevent Russia conquering Western Europe, including Britain and Germany. The Communists know this and that is why they want to stop the Germans re-arming. The Communists also know full well that the Russians in Eastern Germany are re-arming the Germans at full speed, and by the end of 1951 according to the Daily Mail of December 7, 1950, will have an army of 400,000 strong, plus a “Police Force” of at least 180,000, equipped with tanks and aircraft. The Communists have no objection to this sort of German army. In fact, if a German Communist Army invaded Britain, British Communists would welcome them as “liberators” and do all they could to stab in the back our British boys fighting them.

Just like the Communists, the Jews are also opposing German re-armament. In November, 1950, the Board of Deputies of British Jews passed a resolution against German re-armament. Similarly the Daily Worker of January 19th, 1951, gleefully reported that German re­ armament had been condemned by the British Section of the World Jewish Congress. (It will be remembered that S. S. Silverman, Labour M.P., is Chairman of the British Section of the World Jewish Congress. Silverman presented to Parliament on December 12th, 1950, the Cominform “Peace” Petition, organised by the Communist British “Peace” Committee. The object of the “Peace” Petition is to stop Britain and America using the atom bomb in self defence, and — as everyone knows — only the atom bomb stops Russia invading Britain).

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As to why the Jews are so anxious to stop defensive measures against Soviet Russian aggression, such as German re-armament and the atom bomb, it is necessary to refer to the example of Hungary for a clue. In 1945, in the full flush of “liberation” when gratitude to Communist Russia could be expected to be at its height, a General Election was held in Hungary which resulted in 246 seats for the Smallholders Party, 71 for the Socialist Party, 22 for the National Peasant Party, and only 67 seats for the Communists. In spite of this overwhelming defeat, the Communists were forcibly put into power by Red Army bayonets and all other parties liquidated, their members being killed or sent to the mines in Siberia. And what does the Hungarian Communist Government consist of? Well The Times of 20th June, 1949, specifically stated that there was only one (1) Gentile among the Hungarian Communist leaders, and he was Laslo Rajk the Foreign Minister (who led the Underground fighting against the Germans while the present Dictator — the Jew Rakosi — was safe in Moscow throughout the whole of the war). Rajk has since been hanged! So now there are no Gentiles at all among the leaders of the Hungarian Communist Party! The Red Army, therefore, put the Jews into supreme power in Hungary, and will do the same in Britain — if they get the chance!

Communism and Judaism are One and the Same

Other similarities between Communism and Judaism are:

(1) Hatred of Christianity. The Russians, far from hating Christianity, are one of the most religious races on earth, religious even to the point of superstition: the anti-Christian campaign in Communist Russia is Jewish. The Jews have hated Christianity ever since they got Christ crucified by Pontius Pilate. Let us compare a Communist on Christianity with a Jew. The Soviet Education Commissar Lunachersky defined the Communist attitude to Christianity as follows:-

“We hate Christianity and Christians; even the best of them must be looked upon as our worst enemies. They preach the love of our neighbours and mercy, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is an obstacle to the development of the revolution. Down with the love of our neighbours! What we want is hatred. We must learn how to hate and it is only then that we shall conquer the world.”

Millionaire Hollywood Jew playwright Ben Hecht, who went wild with delight every time a British soldier was murdered in Palestine, writes on page 120 of his book A Few in Love,

“One of the finest things ever done by the mob was the crucifixion of Christ. Intellectually it was a splendid gesture, but trust the mob to bungle. If I had had charge of executing Christ I’d have handled it differently. You see what I’d have done was have him shipped to Rome and fed to the lions. They could not have made a Saviour out of mincemeat.”

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Do not be fooled by the “Christianity” of the Communist Dean of Canterbury, Dr. Hewlett Johnson. While Jewish hooligans were desecrating Christian churches and holy places in Jerusalem (between £200,000 and £300,000 worth of damage was done according to The Times of 1st July, 1949), Dr. Hewlett Johnson said in an interview he granted to the Jewish paper, Labour Israel, 6th May, 1949,

“I do not think there is any ground for the claim that the whole city (Jerusalem) should be neutralised to safeguard Christian interests. I had much rather trust the Jews to look after them. I believe they would be the most honourable custodians.”

(2) The Jews by their bible, the Talmud, are allowed to cheat, rob and deceive Gentiles. (Communists rob Gentiles of all they possess by simply nationalising all property off them on pretence of giving it to the “workers,” but actually they keep it for themselves. They intend to rob your savings off you by a capital levy and eventually your house or farm by nationalisation of the land.) The Communists, by Lenin’s direct orders in his book Left Wing Communism — An Infantile Disorder are allowed to use “lies, deceit and subterfuge” to non-Communists. No value, therefore, should be placed on the descriptions of Russia and Communist Eastern Europe and Communist China by Communists who have returned from carefully conducted tours there. Their orders are by that mass murderer Lenin, whose rotting corpse lies pickled in a glass jar in Moscow and is to them a substitute for a God, to lie about the real nature of Communism to you. It is my firm belief that Communism won’t be destroyed until the carcass of Lenin is given a decent Christian burial.

(3) The Jews are a geographically international people. The Communists are a geographically international party.

The Second Jewish World War

Let us now consider the second Jewish World W ar, 1939/1945. All Hitler was doing was to rectify the injustices of the Versailles Treaty of 1919. Britain went to war over Danzig and the Polish Corridor which separated East Prussia from Germany. In the British Labour Party Speakers’ Handbook for 1922 it was stated that Germany had every right to Danzig, as it had been German for over a thousand years, but in 1939 the British Labour Party (led by conchies like Herbert Morrison) were among Britain’s greatest war-mongers.

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What had happened to Danzig in the intervening 17 years? The answer is that in 1922 Germany was firmly in grip of the Jews, while Poland was governed by Nationalists. In 1939 Germany had liberated herself under Hitler from the Jews! Hence the Labour Party’s amazing volte face over Danzig. Now 7 out of the 11 members of the Polish Cabinet are Jews and the Daily Worker of May 20th, 1947, gloatingly boasted that even verbal anti-Semitism was a criminal offence in the new Communist state of Poland. So I leave it to my readers to guess who rules in Poland now!

One can, of course, argue that 360,000 young British lads in the prime of life did indeed die for Poland, but it was not to stop the Germans from having Poland, but to stop the Poles themselves from having Poland! No wonder the Poles in Britain are afraid to return to “Poland”!

Would it not have been wiser in 1939 to allow Germany to carry out her traditional policy of driving towards the east, to smash up the citadel of Jewish Communism in Russia, at the same time liberating the Russian Christians from their horrible yoke, while we in Britain remained strictly neutral, re-arming and consolidating our bases in the Empire in the event of Hitler ultimately turning on us? As it was, we chucked in the B.E.F. beside a rotting Jew-ridden France, led by wealthy incest-lovers like the Jew Leon Blum, several times Prime Minister, only to lose all our equipment before the German onslaught. Had Germany then invaded us we would only have had two Canadian Divisions to oppose them.

Jews Admit it was a Jews’ War

The Jews themselves make no secret of the fact that the recent war was a Jewish one in its entirety. Consider these statements by Jews on it. The Jew Scholem Asch in a pep talk to French troops in the line, written in the French newspaper Les Nouvelles Litteraires of 10th February, 1940, says,

“This is our war, and you are fighting it out for all of us. Even if we Jews are not bodily with you in the trenches, we are nevertheless morally with you.” (Note — I did not notice many Jews with us in my years in the trenches in France in 1914-1918 — T.D.).

The Rabbi Reichhorn wrote on July 1st, 1880, in the periodical Le Contemporain,

“We shall drive the Christians into war by exploiting their national vanity and stupidity. They will then massacre each other, thus giving room for our own people.”

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The Jew Marcus Eli Ravage wrote among other things in the periodical The Century Magazine, U.S.A., January, 1928,

“We have stood at the back of, not only the last war, but all your wars; and not only the Russian, but of all your revolutions worthy of mention in your history.”

The Jew Emil Ludwig (Cohn) wrote in Les Annales in June, 1934,

“Hitler will have no war, but he will be forced to it, not this year, but later on. …”

The Jewish Professor A. Kulischer published in October, 1937,

“a call to the democratic press the world over”: “Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The watchword of Judaism to-day is: a merciless campaign against all German peoples and the complete destruction of the nation.”

The Jew Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading Zionist, wrote in his book Die Judische Kriegsfront, 1940:

“When the National Socialists and their friends cry or whisper that this war is brought about by the Jews, they are perfectly right.”

The Jewish magazine The Sentinel, of Chicago wrote in its issue of October 8th, 1942, as follows:

“The second World War is being fought for the defence of the fundamentals of Judaism.”

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A letter from Hans Schmidt of GANPAC

[Image] Hans Schmidt [1]

Published in the Hoskins Report, Dec. 1993 Richard Kelly Hoskins, publisher

You asked for someone who had lived in Hitler’s Germany to tell what it was like. Permit me, someone who lived under the Swastika flag from 1935, when the Saar was reunited with Germany, to 1945, to give a short answer.

To be a boy or girl at that time was wonderful. In the Hitler Youth the differences between Christian denominations or the different German states didn’t count. We all truly felt that we were members of one body of people – one nation. Youth hostels were opened all over the Reich, enabling us to hike from one beautiful town to another seeing our fatherland. Every effort was made to strengthen our minds and bodies. Contrary to what is said today, we were encouraged to become free in spirit, and not to succumb to peer (or authority) pressure. In peacetime, NO military training was allowed by the Hitler Youth leadership; scouting yes. Incidentally, to “snitch on our parents” was frowned upon.

[Image] Myself, about 1942 or 1943 in the Firefighters’ Hitler Youth. This unit was organized so that we were able to assist regular fire fighters after air raids. The uniform would be a rarity today, it was made of good material of undetermined origin (possibly from French army stocks) of a brownish color with a black collar. Due to the fine manufacture of these uniforms, for which we did not have to pay, they were better suited to impress the girls than to fight British incendiary bombs. I do not know what eventually happened to mine.

At the very time when America’s allies, the Soviets, destroyed most of the Christian churches in Russia and Ukraine, about 2,500 new churches were built in Germany. NOT ONE Christian church was closed. It was the law that school and church had priority over service in the Hitler Youth. As late as the fall of 1944, the Waffen SS barracks in Breslau supplied two buses to take youth to either the nearest Catholic or Protestant church every Sunday. To be a registered member of a Christian church did not prevent advancement in the National Socialist Party.

Germany was National Socialist, but free enterprise flourished during the entire Hitler years. No company was nationalized. No small businessman was stopped from opening up his own store. I myself worked during the war for a company that can only be called part of international capitalism. If you owned shares, nobody confiscated them, like the allies did in 1945.

[Image] National Socialist Autobahn road network

The accomplishments of the ‘Nazis’ were incredible. Starting without money and with six million unemployed (a third of the workforce), they constructed the entire German Autobahn road network in a short span of 6 years – almost without corruption – while seeing to it that the new road system did not unnecessarily destroy either the German landscape, or wildlife habitats and forests. Two years after the NS were elected to power, conditions were so improved that workers had to be hired in nearby friendly countries to help alleviate the worker’s shortage in Germany. Germany was booming while Britain, France and the US were in the depths of depression.

[Image] Adolf Hitler at the presentation of the Beetle

To help the workers get cheap transportation, the VW was designed and a factory was being built for their manufacture when the war started. Also, for the common people, villages of small single family homes were erected. The monthly payments were set so low that almost anyone could afford his own house. In Hitler’s Germany there were no homeless; no beggars. Crime was almost non existent because habitual criminals were in concentration camps. All this was reported in the newspapers and was known by everybody.

The German press during the Third Reich had fewer taboos than the American press today. The only taboo I can think of evolved around Hitler, and, during the war, there was a law that prohibited “defeatism”. This was because of the negative role the German press played in the German defeat of 1918.

It bears remembering that the “European Economic Community” was first coined by the Third Reich government. I remember many articles, both pro and con about this subject. One should also not forget that during the war at least seven million foreign nationals (nearly 10% of the population) worked in Germany, either as voluntary workers (Dutch, Danes, French, Poles, Ukrainians come to mind), or as forced laborers or as prisoners. I know of no instance where foreigners were attacked or molested (much less killed) because they were foreigners. Speaking of the press, I have an article from 1943 in my possession that spells out how necessary friendship is between the German and Russian peoples.

Between 1933 and 1945 there was a tremendous emphasis on culture: theatres flourished; the German movie industry produced about 100 feature films per year (of which not one was anti-American. Only 50 of them can be considered pure propaganda movies). Some the best classical recordings still extant were made in Hitler’s Germany. Actors from all over Europe, but mainly from France, Sweden and Italy were stars in German movies.

Germany always loved sports, and there was no lack of opportunities to partake in any sport one liked. The 1936 Berlin Olympics was merely a showcase of what transpired all over the Reich. In a book on these Olympics issued by the Hitler Youth that is still in my possession, Jesse Owens is shown several times and mentioned favorably.

[Image] Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

During the Schmeling boxing fights, we kids all knew of Joe Louis, the brown bomber. Nowhere did I ever read derogatory remarks about other races. Certainly the accomplishments of Germany and the Germans were given prominence, similar to ‘the ad nauseum’ statements of today that the U.S. is the land of the free, etc. In my ten years in the Hitler Youth (actually 8, since I obviously couldn’t attend while a soldier), the Jews were never mentioned. Other sports that gripped our attention were flying (there was Hitler Youth flying training with their own sail planes), car races (British and Italian drivers dominated) and riding.

Frequently I am asked about gun control during the Hitler era. Claims are made that Hitler could take power because he disarmed the German people. That is nonsense. In Germany gun ownership was never as prevalent as it is in America. I would say that for hundreds of years one needed a gun license in order to keep a weapon.

[Image] Our service in the Hitler Youth did not take all of our time, as seen from this picture of 1938. We had invited playmates form the neighborhood to play soldiers. Note the real weapons from our attic. Two guns were old flintlock rifles. One of the swords was a beautiful, hand engraved antique. All these weapons probably ended up as war booty in America. The headgear was from prior wars. Of the five boys at the top, Kurt Seiler, myself [arrowed], RolfBorschel and Erich Seiler served in the Waffen-SS. Kurt died in Hungary, Erich rose after the war to a high police rank, Rolf was unlucky enough to get caught in the French dragnet of 1947 (which I escaped) and ended up a slave worker in Lille.

On the other hand, my father owned an old pistol clandestinely (about which we children knew), and there were gun clubs all over the Reich. Furthermore, Germany was always a country with many excellent gunsmiths. It is doubtful that they could stay in business if the laws were too stringent. I would surmise that while Germany was Germany (before it was ‘liberated’ by the allies) gun ownership probably was far more widespread than is acknowledged today. Laws on the books were mainly to give the police a handle to arrest criminals with guns, not the ordinary citizen. Incidentally, just as Hitler had forbidden so-called ‘punishment exercises’ in the army (the brutal methods still employed in the American army), so had he forbidden the use of clubs by the police. He considered it demeaning to the German people.

Finally this:

I don’t believe I’ll ever see again a people as happy and content as were the great majority of Germans under Hitler, especially in peacetime. Certainly some minorities suffered: former parliamentary politicians – because they couldn’t play their political games; the Jews – because they lost their power over Germany; the gypsies – because during the war they were required to work; and crooked union bosses – because they lost their parasitical positions.

To this day I believe that the happiness of the majority of a people is more important than the well-being of a few spoiled minorities. In school there should be emphasis on promoting the best and the intelligent, as was done in Germany during the Hitler years – a fact that contributed after the war to the rapid German reconstruction. That Hitler was loved by his people, there can be no question. Even a few week’s before the war’s end and his death, he was able to drive to the front and mingle among the combat soldiers with only minimum security. None of the soldiers had to unload their weapons before meeting with the Fuhrer (as was required when President Bush met with American soldiers during the Gulf War).

Germany under Hitler was quite different from what the media would have you believe.

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Footnotes

[1] Hans Schmidt (April 24, 1927 – May 30, 2010) was a German and naturalized American citizen, former member of the Waffen-SS, and founder of the German-American National Political Action Committee (GAN-PAC).

Schmidt was born on April 24, 1927, in Völklingen, a town in the then League of Nations mandate of the Saar Basin between Germany and France. During the National Socialist period, he was a member of the Hitler Youth, and, by his own account, joined the Waffen SS at the age of 17, and served as a corporal in the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, originally the personal bodyguard regiment of Adolf Hitler, later a Panzer division of the Waffen-SS. Schmidt was wounded twice and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. He arrived in the United States in 1949.

GAN-PAC

In 1983, Schmidt founded the German-American National Political Action Committee (GAN-PAC), which published the GANPAC Brief in English and the USA-Bericht in German.

Schmidt is the author of several books and articles including; SS Panzergrenadier: A True Story Of World War II.

From Amazon: This is the autobiographical true story and personal narrative of the German side of WWII. The author recounts the reasons that led him to decide to join the Waffen-SS in 1943 at the age of 16. He details his service in the German Labor Service (RAD) prior to induction into and training with the W-SS in 1944. The author recounts his extensive schooling prior to posting with the Leibstandarte SS Panzer Div., and his personal experiences in combat with the unit in the Ardennes and the final battles on the Eastern Front in Hungary, ending with American captivity. HB, 20 previously unpublished photos from author’s collection.

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[Part 10]

“I am deeply stirred by the word which Ulrich Hutten wrote the last time he seized his pen: — Germany.”

ADOLF HITLER

January 30th, 1937

The Case for Germany 

A Study of Modern Germany 

by

A. P. Laurie

M. A. Cantab., D. Sc., LL. D. Edin., F. C. S., F. R. S. E.

With a Preface by Admiral Sir Barry Domvile

K. B. E., C. B., C. M. G.

Berlin W 15

Internationaler Verlag

1939

FIRST EDITION ………… JUNE 1939

SECOND EDITION ……. JULY 1939

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PRINTED IN GERMANY

DEDICATION

It is with admiration and gratitude for the great work he has done for the German people that I dedicate this book to the Fuhrer.

A. P. L.

TO THE READER

There are two sides to every question. You have read one side in our Press for six years.

This book gives the other side.

A. P. L.

PREFACE

It is a great pleasure to me to introduce the public to Dr. Laurie’s valuable book on modern Germany. He is best known to the world as a brilliant scientist, but he has found time in the intervals of his work to pursue with ardour the task upon which every sensible member of the British and German races should be engaged — namely the establishment of good relations and a better understanding between these two great nations.

Dr Laurie knows full well that this friendship is the keystone to peace in Europe — nay, in the whole world.

He is one of the small group who founded the Association known as “The Link”, whose sole aim is to get Britons and Germans to know and understand one another better. He is one of the most zealous workers in this good cause in the country.

He writes of the National Socialist movement with knowledge and great sympathy.

The particular value of this book lies in the fact that it is written by a foreigner, who cannot be accused of patriotic excess in his interpretation of the great work done by Herr Hitler and his associates. I recommend this volume with confidence to all people who are genuinely impressed with the desire to understand one of the greatest — and most bloodless — revolutions in history.

BARRY DOMVILE

Robin’s Tree

8th May 1939.

“As we advance in our social knowledge, we shall endeavour to make our governments paternal as well as judicial; that is, to establish such laws and authorities as may at once direct us in our occupations, protect us against our follies, and visit us in our distresses; a government which shall repress dishonesty, as now it punishes theft; which shall show how the discipline of the masses may be brought to aid the toils of peace, as the discipline of the masses has hitherto knit the sinews of battle; a government which shall have its soldiers of the ploughshare as well as its soldiers of the sword, and which shall distribute more proudly its golden crosses of industry — golden as the glow of the harvest — than it now grants its bronze crosses of honour — bronzed with the crimson of blood.”

RUSKIN. Political Economy of Art.

“All front fighters fought side by side and went through an inferno. They are all comparable to the heroes of the ancient world. It was the manhood of the nations in their prime who fought and experienced the horrors of modern war.

In another war the flower of the nations’ men and women will have to fight. Europe will be destroyed if the best in all of the nations are wiped out. A new conflict will exceed even the ghastly tragedies of the Great War.

I believe that those who rattle the sabres have not participated in war. I know that war veterans speak and think differently.

They energetically desire to prevent another conflict. I hope that the men who are standing before me can contribute to preserve the peace of the world — a peace of honour and equality for all.

Let us not talk of prestige as between the victors and the defeated. This is my one request: Forget what has divided the nations before and remember that history has advanced.”

Field Marshal GOERING addressing the British

and German war veterans.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ……………………………………………………………. PAGE

Dedication

To the Reader

Preface

Field Marshall Goering’s Address

I.   DER FUHRER ……………………………………………………….. 11

II.   THE BELEAGUERED CITY ……………………………………. 21

III.   NATIONAL SOCIALISM ……………………………………… 25

IV.   THE NAZI RALLYS AT NUREMBERG ……………………. 34

V.   THE FOREIGN POLICY OF GERMANY ……………………. 41

VI.   ENGLAND AND GERMANY ………………………………….. 49

VII.   MARCH 7th, A MOST IMPORTANT DATE …………… 54

VIII.   THE REAL ENEMY OF EUROPE ……………………….. 58

IX.   COMMUNISM VERSUS NATIONAL SOCIALISM …… 62

X.   THE UNION OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE …………………. 68

XI.   ACTS OF “AGGRESSION” BY GERMANY ……………… 79

XII.   THE DANCE OF DEATH ……………………………………… 85

XIII.   OUR FUTURE POLICY TOWARDS GERMANY ……. 93

XIV.   THE HITLER YOUTH MOVEMENT ……………………… 100

XV.   THE WINTER HELP ORGANIZATION ………………….. 104

XVI.   NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE PROTESTANT

CHURCH ……………………………………………………………………… 109

XVII. ECONOMICS …………………………………………………….. 118

XVIII. THE FOUR YEARS PLAN …………………………………… 138

XIX.   THE GERMAN COLONIES …………………………………. 141

XX.   THE LABOUR FRONT ………………………………………….. 146

XXI.   AGRICULTURE …………………………………………………. 155

XXII. MUNICH AND AFTER ………………………………………… 167

Chapter Twentyone

AGRICULTURE

I have already dealt briefly in the chapter on Economics with the agricultural problem, but it is so important, being the foundation on which everything rests, that I propose to discuss it here in more detail. It is also of interest as showing the way in which the National Socialist Government approaches an economic problem. They begin by approaching it as a social problem, the well being of the agriculturist and his family and their recognition as a living and essential part of the community being the first question to be considered. In no case do they indulge in revolutionary economics. They have not only accepted the existing economic structure in Germany, but they go further than that and search into the past history to find a solid foundation on which to build. Germany has her big land owners but she also has her peasant proprietors amounting to more than 500,000 families among whom the custom of inheritance from father to son is very largely prevalent.

The Bauer, the Peasant Proprietor is the solid foundation Hitler says, on which to build a state, and he must be established and protected by law so as to form a Peasant Aristocracy, proud of their position in the commonwealth and recognition by the State. It is a class alas absent in this country except where a county council has established small holdings. The English yeoman and peasant farmer was destroyed by the robbery of the commons and the enclosure act.

In France, in Germany and in Austria, the farm house of the peasant is familiar in the landscape, sometimes clustered in villages, in other places far apart. Under one roof is the family house, and storage for hay, and room for all the pigs and cattle during the hard continental winter, when everything must be gathered under one roof. The peasant is an interesting feature of most continental countries. In Italy he scorns to marry a townsman and it is among them that you find purity of race and handsome men and beautiful girls. The castle on the mountain side has long been a ruin. The peasant’s home continues from one generation to another.

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In Spain the population of the cities have no national characteristics or race features, and are poor undergrown specimens of humanity. I have never forgotten seeing the peasants riding into Toledo in their picturesque costumes. These were the men who had conquered Mexico and Peru and showed race in every feature.

Hitler is right, therefore, when he builds the German State on the peasant, a race which we destroyed in the 18th century to satisfy the greed of our land owners.

While in Russia the Soviet have been striving to destroy the peasant and convert him into a communal wage slave, a struggle in which millions have died of starvation, Hitler has built his State on the peasant as its foundation.

The contrast between Communism and National Socialism could not be more marked. The National Socialist builds on a long tried system of land ownership; Communism sweeps it all away in the name of an untried economic theory. Under the law establishing the peasant it has been made illegal to lend money on the security of the house and land and they cannot be sold in payment of debts.

Another interesting provision is that any destitute member of the family has the right to claim the shelter of the ancestral home.

We shall never solve our agricultural difficulties in this country until the man who tills the soil owns the soil or has it in perpetual lease direct from the State.

Another important principle established in Germany is that the land yields its best return to the intense cultivation of the small unit of land. The application of mass production ideas to the land has already in the U.S.A. and in Australia converted millions of acres into a desert. The small economic unit is the right principle for cultivation but it is at a disadvantage in selling the product, and this is where the second part of the organisation comes in.

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On the 13th September, 1933, the German Government enacted as the basic law for agriculture, the National Food Corporation Act which decided the provisional constitution of this organisation. Thus the Corporation was lifted from the level of a voluntary organisation to the position of a public body. The National Food Corporation became a compulsory institution for the persons affected, and is subject to official supervision. Therefore the National Food Corporation includes not only the productive group — that is agriculture itself — but also all those groups which are in any way concerned with providing the German nation with food. They comprise the groups engaged in the manufacture of various commodities out of these products as well as those concerned with the distribution to the consumer. By reason of this co-operation, the National Food Corporation forms a body consisting of producers, manufacturers and distributors all of whom are of equal importance within this organisation.

The following is a rough outline of the organisation of the National Food Corporation.

At the head of the whole organisation of the National Food Corporation is the National Peasants Fuhrer, R. Walther Darre with his deputy.

To assist him the Peasants Fuhrer has an advisory body, the Reichsbauernrat (National Peasants Council), membership of which is purely honorary. Its members are nominated by the Peasants Fuhrer.

In the Stabsamt (Planning Dept.) the Peasants Fuhrer has created an institution where the work is planned for many years ahead by several main sections which deal with questions of trade and industry, law, comparative agriculture, training in agricultural practice and theory, the introduction of up-to-date working methods, peasant customs and racial matters.

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In the Verwaltungsamt (Executive Department) the plans already decided on by the Stabsamt are put into operation.

Section I of the Verwaltungsamt is concerned with the welfare of the individual, be he the owner of an agricultural estate, that is to say peasant or agriculturist, tenant farmer or agricultural labourer. All questions bearing on the rural population are treated here.

Section II of the Verwaltungsamt deals with all questions of rural economy, with the homestead, with the estate, in short with everything connected with the peasant’s calling. It comprises, besides the technical side, all matters connected with soil, crops, and plant life, training, forestry. agricultural implements and machinery as well as with domestic economy.

Section III of the Verwaltungsamt is responsible for the organisation of the market, e. g. for questions of the distribution of supplies for the utilization or processing of agricultural produce. The economic bodies concerned are grouped in eighteen associations which — under their own administration have been assigned special duties to the community but are under the direction of Section III. The following are the most important organisations:

Hauptvereinigung der Deutschen Getreidewirtschaft.

(National Union of Corn Producers and Distributors).

Hauptvereinigung der Deutschen Viehwirtschaft.

(National Union of Live-stock Breeders and Dealers).

Hauptvereinigung der Deutschen Milchwirtschaft.

(National Union of Milk Producers and Distributors).

Hauptvereinigung der Deutschen Eierwirtschaft.

(National Union of Egg Producers and Distributors).

Hauptvereinigung der Deutschen Gartenbauwirtschaft.

(National Union of Market Gardeners).

Reichsverband Deutscher landwirtschaftlicher Genossenschaften.

(National Union of German Agricultural Co-operative Societies).

Hauptvereinigung der Deutschen Brauwirtschaft.

(National Union of the German Brewing Industry).

Wirtschaftliche Vereinigung der Deutschen Susswarenwirtschaft.

(Economical Union of Confectioneries).

Hauptvereinigung der Deutschen Fischwirtschaft.

(National Union of the Fishing Trade).

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Wirtschaftliche Vereinigung der Margarine-und Kunstspeisefettindustrie.

(Union of the Margarine and Artificial Fat Industry).

Hauptvereinigung der Deutschen Kartoffelwirtschaft.

(National Union of Potato Growers and Distributors).

In addition to the sections enumerated, the Verwaltungsamt has three more sections. Two of these are concerned with financial matters and questions of personnel while the section “Public Enlightenment” is responsible for the press, broadcasting, the organisation of exhibitions, films, lectures, agricultural market information, advertising, literature, publishing, archives, and libraries.

An Inspector-General has been appointed to superintend the setting into operation of special schemes and to control the offices of the Landes-und Kreisbauernschaften (Regional and District Peasant Associations).

The National Food Corporation is subdivided into Landesbauernschaften (Regional Peasant Associations) whose area generally coincides with that of the various German Federal States or the Prussian provinces. The Landesbauernfuhrer (Regional Peasants Fuhrer) and his deputy are responsible for the work of the Regional Associations. The organisation is similar to that of the Verwaltungsamt for the whole of the Reich, though on a smaller scale. There are in all twenty Regional Associations which are in turn subdivided into Kreisand Ortsbauernschaften (District and Local Peasant Associations).

The Districts Association are, in the main, in close touch with the peasants and land owners and supply them with such advice as cannot be supplied by the Local Associations.

Each District Association is headed by a District Association Fuhrer who holds an honorary position.

The administration of the Local Associations is also an honorary function. The Fuhrer of the Local Association is in uninterrupted touch with each peasant and thus holds a particularly responsible office.

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Finally, it should be mentioned that the National Food Corporation also supervises the peasants’ schools, the agricultural schools and colleges, and the stock breeding boards, so that it includes in its sphere of activity everything connected with the task for which it is competent.

Marketing regulations

It has already been intimated that the National Socialist agrarian policy has abandoned (in the case of particularly important food products) the capitalistic maxim that the price is dependent on supply and demand. In this way not only the distributors and manufacturers but also the producers of our food supplies are no longer forced to go in for financial speculation. In this respect, the poorer classes were at the greatest disadvantage; for, lacking the necessary capital to await favourable times, they had to sell their goods prematurely in order to obtain ready money. The peasant as a rule, belonged to the class of speculators with limited capital, for he can generally turn over his capital only once a year. The same applied to the middle-sized industries immediately connected with agricultural produce, such as flour mills and breweries. As a result, many of the small and middle-sized concerns were taken over by larger firms with considerable capital, a development unfavourable to national economy. The harmful influence of this speculation was counteracted by the marketing regulations laid down by the National Socialist agrarian policy which introduced fixed prices, and fixed prices means fair prices.

A fair price must fulfil the double condition of protecting both the producer and the consumer. The peasant and the agriculturist must be protected against the necessity of having to sell their products at cut prices if they are to sell them at all; whereas the consumer’s interests must be guarded against being robbed at times when, owing to seasonal changes, production falls off. The fixed price should be high enough to cover the cost of production and to guarantee the proper continuance of agricultural work.

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On the other hand, it must be low enough to exclude the possibility of the consumer’s being robbed; the consumer, in fact, should always be able to rely on stable prices which are in proportion to his income. In this way the prices of bread, milk and butter, for example, have remained stationary for years, though, from a speculative point of view, price fluctuations would have been technically justified by the variation in the yield of the annual crops etc. The fixing of the prices has, however, prevented this to the benefit of both parties. With regard to the necessities of daily life, the prices have also been fixed, generally speaking, for the dealers’ trade as well as for the trader utilizing or processing agricultural produce. In fixing the rate of the middleman’s margin it was not intended to kill this trade since it has long shown its value as a machinery for private distribution. The idea was simply to remove any possibility of financial speculation on the part of anyone concerned.

But the marketing regulations have other important functions apart from mere price regulation. In the first place they regulate the functioning of the entire system of manufacture and distribution. Furthermore, by means of the marketing regulations a systematic organisation of the sale of agricultural products is secured. This shall here under be demonstrated by an example taken from the dairy business.

Before the agricultural marketing regulations were introduced, the milk market was in a chaotic state. Obviously, everyone wished to share in supplying milk to the big towns, because the best prices were to be obtained there. The milk supplied to Berlin, for instance, did not all come from the surrounding districts, but was in part sent hundreds of miles, even from the Allgau, a district situated in the extreme south of Germany. This is explained by the fact that the Allgau peasant received locally for his home made butter and cheese such a poor return that he found it a better paying proposition to send his milk to Berlin, in spite of the distance. Apart from the middleman’s profit there was the enormous cost of haulage over some 435 miles to be paid. Things went from bad to worse, and no solution appeared possible. At the same time it was found impossible to lower the retail price because the unproductive middleman’s charges prevented any reduction. When marketing regulations were introduced, the dairy business throughout Germany was divided into certain milk supply regions, an arrangement which has proved extremely beneficial to the entire dairy trade.

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Similar arrangements have been made for the supply of other commodities.

The marketing regulations also endeavour to improve the quality of all products of German soil. The price of superior qualities cannot be demanded for inferior qualities; the idea of improving the quality is therefore not penalized but encouraged. For purposes of research in the direction of the improvement of quality the National Food Corporation is provided with all manner of research and teaching institutions. Hence marketing regulations imply not stagnation but increased efficiency.

Where necessary, the marketing regulations also help to secure order and discipline in the market. The problem of food supplies cannot be allowed to depend on the arbitrary action of individuals to the extent of affecting the common interest. The private individual’s initiative is in no way restricted, but competition must be kept within bounds, so as not to become harmful to the national economy. In cases of harmful and unnecessary competition the National Food Corporation can take decisive action by licensing only such a number of businesses in any locality or districts as may be reasonably expected to make a living.

It may be pointed out once more that marketing regulations are not identical with “planned economy”. Nobody intends to limit the area under the plough or to enforce certain rules concerning cultivation. There is a fundamental difference between marketing regulations and “planned economy”.

To sum up, the following are the functions assigned to the marketing regulations:

I. Protection of the producer

Fair, fixed prices.

Assured sales.

II. Protection of the consumer

Fair and stable prices for the consumer.

Fair supply even in case of scarcity.

Guaranty of quality.

Control of supplies.

III. Organised movement of goods, organised manufacture

Compulsory Pools (Andienungspficht).

Sensible distribution of goods.

Fixing of quotas.

Fixing of a fair margin of profit.

Principle of efficiency.

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Establishing a New German Peasantry

The term landliche Siedlung (rural settlement) is more generally used than Neubildung Deutschen Bauerntums (Establishing a New German Peasantry); the latter, however, gives a clearer idea of the actual facts. Miniature and suburban settlements will not be considered here, nor for that matter cottage settlements which, from small beginnings, develop into peasant holdings.

It is the aim of the National Food Corporation to create as many new peasants’ estates as possible, particularly in thinly populated districts. They must have the size of at least one Ackernahrung (i. e. sustaining a man, his wife and two children), thus guaranteeing a livelihood from the soil worked.

The success hitherto attained in establishing a new German peasantry is, strange to say, hard to express in figures. Thus, not much is gained by stating that, in 1934, nearly 5,000 new estates were set up. Neither can a clear idea of the development in this direction be gathered from the fact that 144,617 hectares (approximately 357,000 acres) of land in all parts of Germany were provided for purposes of internal colonisation in 1934. But in comparison with the fact that, during the years 1919 to 1932, on the average only 67,184 hectares (approximately 165,000 acres) per year were provided for the same purpose, it will easily be seen that the establishment of new peasants’ estates is proceeding rapidly.

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There are three ways for providing land for this purpose.

A certain acreage will be provided out of the large landed estates. It should, however, be made clear that this does not mean any compulsory expropriation of large properties, but that the owners will be compensated for the land acquired for this purpose. Besides privately owned land, government property also will be utilized for internal colonization, as far as technical conditions permit. The Reichssiedlungsgesetz (Reich Act to make provision for Internal Colonization) provides the possibility of obtaining from private and public estates in the manner described an acreage of nearly 1.7 million hectares (approximately 4.2 million acres) with a view to creating new agricultural land. It is, however, not yet possible to say when the whole of this land will be available.

A second possibility of providing land for agricultural purposes is the cultivation of waste land, bogs, fens and swamps. This method of obtaining arable soil is particularly important since in this way useless land is turned into useful land. In contrast to the cultivation of bogs we cannot base exaggerated hopes on the cultivation of waste land, because there is only a limited quantity of the latter available. It must also be borne in mind that certain stretches of waste land can never be made productive owing to peculiarities of conditions such as climate, altitude, nature of the soil, etc., which cannot very well be changed. The total area in Germany utilisable from an agrarian point of view is about 30 million hectares (approximately 73 million acres). It would be unlike the German peasant to have allowed millions of hectares of waste land to lie idle beside his good fields. In the case of bogs and swamps, the conditions, as already pointed out, are entirely different. Here, in contrast to the case of waste land, the individual has generally no possibility of undertaking by himself any successful and comprehensive reclamation. Results can only be realised when a large part or the entire area of the bog is tackled at the same time.

For this reason it has been advisable to make use of the Arbeitsdienst (Labour Service) for the cultivation of waste land. We may estimate the area of bog and waste land capable of being cultivated at about 2 million hectares (approximately 5 million acres). It is, of course, impossible to achieve great results at short notice. Nevertheless, extensive reclamation of bog and waste land, amounting to over 200,000 hectares (approximately 500,000 acres) has already begun. This land is situated in all parts of Germany. The most important reclamation would appear to be the Rhin and Havel swamps near Berlin, the Sprotte fens in Silesia, the Ried marshes in Hesse, the Chiemgau bog and the Danube marshes in Bavaria and the swamps on the left bank of the river Ems in North West Germany. In the Labour Service young Germans of all classes have an opportunity of becoming acquainted with and acquiring respect for the work involved in the reclamation of the German bogs and marshes.

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Unfailing energy and tenacity have been and will be called for in order to make use of this possibility of obtaining new land, namely by reclamation from the sea. Extensive dykes are required. Since the German nation, the “People without Space” needs new land, they will not shrink even from the most difficult tasks. Within a 50-year programme, the North Sea on the West coast of Schleswig-Holstein alone is to yield up 100,000 hectares (approximately 250,000 acres) of new land. Good results have already been obtained. In 1935 the Adolf Hitler polder, 1,334 hectares (approximately 3,300 acres) in area, and the Hermann Goring polder, 550 hectares (approximately 1,300 acres) in area, were inaugurated. In this way land for nearly one hundred peasant estates under the new Act has been provided. A considerably greater number of hand-craftsmen’s settlements have also been formed here.

The selection of new peasants depends on certain conditions. It goes without saying that they must be of German descent. The peasant and his wife must be valuable individuals from a racial point of view and come from healthy stock, so that a guaranty is provided for healthy offspring. Families with many children are given preference when new land is being distributed. It is also of primary importance that the applicant should be able to prove that he himself as well as his family are suited to the life. These new peasant estates must not be regarded as a practising ground for all and anyone to try their hands at experimenting, nor as an instructional institution for those who consider themselves fitted for agricultural work. Technical qualifications are therefore required under all circumstances. Only where these primary conditions are satisfied the financial situation of the applicant is considered. For financing these undertakings definite rules have been drawn up on lines which make it possible even for persons of moderate means to take over one of those new estates.

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The establishment of these new peasant estates is undertaken by estate companies under the supervision of competent authorities, an arrangement which guarantees close co-operation with the National Food Corporation. The new agricultural estates are got ready up to a point from which it is possible to begin to work them properly where after every peasant is free to make the best use possible of the opportunity afforded him for improving his position according to his personal energy and for endeavouring to do his best for his own welfare and that of his descendants. Only by struggling to succeed will he become attached to the soil. Not only younger sons of peasants are to be provided with a new estate, but everyone capable of fulfilling the required conditions, particularly agricultural labourers. Since these latter cannot, as a rule, compete with the others financially, especially favourable conditions will apply in their case, and they will thus be provided with the possibility of rising in the social scale.

Besides these fundamental matters a certain number of other points have to be considered in connection with the planning of houses, schools, and with similar questions. Their solution will, as a rule, be arrived at in practice. As a result of the close co-operation between the competent authorities, the National Food Corporation and the estate companies, the conditions laid down by the National Food Corporation will always be carefully observed.

This great work of settlement and internal colonization going on in Germany serves the end of national reconstruction. Where reconstruction is taking place, peace must prevail. Hence Germany too needs peace for her work.

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Chapter Twentytwo

MUNICH AND AFTER

“Why do the heathens rage and the people imagine a vain thing”

Since the signing of the Peace Pact between Chamberlain and Hitler in September events have moved rapidly in Europe. The reply in Great Britain to the Peace Pact was a violent campaign in the British Press against Germany, and an attack on Chamberlain’s policy both by the Opposition in Parliament and by many members of his own party. The Peace Pact was ignored and war with Germany discussed as a matter of course. Chamberlain was only able to save his position by increasing enormously the expenditure on armaments.

The large number of people in this country, who believe a good understanding with Germany essential had no opportunity of putting forward their point of view in the press. The members of Parliament were intimidated by the press campaign. The only institution left where a free expression of opinion was possible was the House of Lords. The warmongers controlled both the press and the B. B. C.

The final victory of Franco enormously strengthened the position of the Axis in Europe to the great astonishment of our press who, having pursued him with a vile campaign of calumny during the war, assisted by a political agitation in this country, imagined that he would join with us. Franco’s reply to our advances was to join the anti-Comintern Pact and France, who had taken the side of the Communists, found herself with three potential enemies on her three frontiers.

Hungary also joined the anti-Comintern Pact, and Jugoslavia entered into the closest friendship with Germany and Italy, so that Great Britain and France found themselves faced with a formidable bloc in Europe, of nations they had treated with hostility or indifference.

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President Roosevelt next joined the campaign against Germany and Italy. The Press and the wireless had been used for months to spread lies about Germany and when the ground had been prepared Roosevelt made a violent attack on Germany and Italy, and proposed a combination of the Democracies against them and a trade boycott. As Senator Pittman put it clearly,

“Why kill them when we can starve them?”

These proposals by Roosevelt were acclaimed by our Press but it soon became evident that the people in the U.S.A. were not going to be drawn into another European war and that Roosevelt would find it very difficult to get the Neutrality Law altered so that he could if he chose supply munitions to one side and not to the other, thus putting into the hands of the President the decision of Peace or War.

It was obvious that Germany and Italy could not continue to ignore the feverish preparations for war in Great Britain, France and the U.S.A., and consequently two dramatic events took place, one quickly following on the other.

Slovakia separated herself from Czechoslovakia, claiming independence. The Czech Government, faced by internal revolution, asked Germany to intervene and Germany occupied Bohemia and Moravia incorporating them as a Protectorate in the Reich. It was impossible any longer to tolerate this promontory penetrating deep into Germany and governed by people who were largely communistic and hostile to Germany, an area which French military authorities had openly stated would be used as a base for bombing planes, aiming at destroying the cities of Germany.

It was evident from the replies made by Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax that they did not regard the occupation of Bohemia and Moravia as a matter affecting our interests, as, owing to the break away of Slovakia, Czechoslovakia had ceased to exist and an occupation by German troops made at the request of the Czech Government could hardly be described as an act of military aggression.

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Then the storm cloud, organised by those working for war, burst and has swept the Government like helpless logs in its torrent towards war. The public excitement was increased by the publication in the London Press of a message purporting to come from Rumania — but now believed to have been concocted in London — to the effect that Germany had threatened Rumania with war if she did not give her a complete monopoly of all her external trade.

The British Ambassador in Berlin was instructed to lodge a protest with the German Government, and to tear up the Peace Pact signed by Herr Hitler and Mr. Chamberlain.

This was followed later by the occupation of Albania by Italy thus securing the Adriatic from the hostile fleets of England and France bombarding Italian towns.

According to Mr. Chamberlain these two necessary acts of self defence filled the whole world with “horror”. I have been young and now am old and in my lifetime I have seen Great Britain wage war after war to “extend” the Empire. It is not for us, satiated with conquest, and oppressing today by force the Arabs in Palestine — a country in which we are interlopers, and which incidentally occupies a strategic position on the Mediterranean, — to criticise the actions of other nations.

These two inevitable acts were received quite calmly in Europe but were made the excuse for a fresh campaign here and in the States in which it was stated that Germany and Italy meant to invade and annex all the small nations in Europe as a preliminary to world conquest, and our Press arranged for alarmist messages from every capital in Europe. An imaginary crisis was created and the enemies of Chamberlain gathered their forces to turn him out of office. Churchill, Eden, and their friends worked night and day to organise a revolt in the Conservative Party, and Fleet Street said he would not remain in power for another week. If he fell Eden, who cannot speak without showing his insolent attitude to the German people, Churchill and their friends would form a government.

Chamberlain saved himself by his speech in Birmingham attacking Hitler, and by proposing to resuscitate the old plan which he had only a year ago condemned as unworkable — a coalition of the small nations in Europe against Germany.

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Without waiting to be asked, we promised Poland to defend her if Germany attacked her independence, went round Europe trying to draw the small nations into a combination against Germany, and approached the Soviet for the same purpose. When Italy occupied Albania, we hastened to offer Greece and Albania our defence if their independance was attacked. The response to these efforts has been very remarkable. Ten nations in addition to France and Italy, are in contact with the German frontier. Of these Belgium is guaranteed by England France and Germany. Of the other nine, only Poland has accepted. The other eight have declined our offer of protection, saying they have no cause for alarm, and in addition, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Estonia and Bulgaria stand aloof. A Norwegian Minister speaking the other day, declared that for three hundred years, the Scandinavian countries have been fighting with England for the right to maintain their neutrality. Rumania and Greece have thanked us for our offer to defend them, but have explained that they have no intention of entering into a reciprocal treaty and only Portugal, Poland and Turkey, have agreed to a mutually defensive treaty. Rumania has been rewarded with a loan of five million pounds, for graciously allowing us to defend her. The Soviet in spite of our beseeching attitude has so far not come to any agreement with us. The part they will play if war should come, is that of the jackal feasting on the corpses of the slain.

All we have done is to present Hitler with a splendid testimonial from the small nations in Europe.

Just as we were forced by the “City” to crush the small independant Boer Republic in order to gain control of the gold mines, so the real reason why we are interfering in Poland, Rumania and Greece, is that our financiers have large interests in the Polish coal mines, where the miners wages are disgracefully low, Rumanian oil and Greek banking. A pipe line runs from the oil fields of poverty stricken Rumania to the city of London, pouring the wealth of that country into the pockets of our financiers. They are determined that Germany be warned off these countries, where they have established a monopoly of financial control. The British public are deceived by the cry:

“Defend the independance of small nations”.

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The attempt we are making to persuade the Soviet to invade Europe pouring in hordes of barbaric troops from European and Asiatic Russia, whose advance would be accompanied by Communist risings and massacres, is probably the greatest crime against Christianity and civilization in the history of Europe.

By following this extraordinary foreign policy our Government has sinned against four principles which should govern the foreign policy of nations.

No Government has the right to pledge the lives of the people, except in self defence or defence of a vital interest. The inclusion of Bohemia in the Reich touches no interest of ours.

No Government has a right to hand the control of its foreign policy to another nation or nations. Let us suppose, for instance, that Greece quarrelled with Italy and they went to war; we are bound to fight for Greece whether she is right or wrong.

The following quotation from a speech made by Captain Euan Wallace, Minister of Transport, at Bognor, condemns the government foreign policy out of their own mouths.

“Let us make no mistake about it, the decision whether we will fight has been taken out of the hands of the people of this country, and out of the hands of our governors. We have made commitments which are automatic. If those commitments are broken, this country is committed for better or for worse to take up arms.”

It is the duty of a Government to reduce outside commitments which may lead to war, and to secure the friendship of all nations. Our Government has increased our commitments which may lead to war, and by this action caused the Peace Pact and the Naval Treaty with Germany to be torn up. We had’ torn up the Peace Pact and Germany has now quite reasonably denounced the Naval Pact which was of great value to us.

The final result of our action has been that Hitler is freed from his Peace Treaty with Poland and any restraint in strengthening his navy, so that he is left with a distinct diplomatic gain by our action.

No Government has the right to lure a nation into war with a third nation if they cannot fulfil their offers of help. If Poland, having accepted our advances, makes war on Germany, we could not by any possibility go to her assistance.

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As the Fuhrer pointed out in his speech on April 28, 1939, when he first signed a Peace Pact with Poland he made no objections to the existing “Mutual Security Treaty” with France; but for Poland, having signed the Peace Pact, to make a treaty with Great Britain undertaking to make war on Germany under certain conditions, is an obvious breach of the Peace Pact.

What does Poland imagine she gains by this move? The Polish Corridor is an injustice to Germany and many people are astonished that she has put up with it so long. Danzig is as much a German city as Liverpool is English. Suppose we had lost the War and Germany had given Liverpool to De Valera? How long would we have tolerated that state of affairs?

Hitler made the Peace Pact with Poland and has faithfully observed it. Now they have broken it he is free to take back the Polish Corridor and include Danzig in the Reich. If Poland imagines that she can drag England into a war with Germany about Danzig she is greatly mistaken. Our Government has been careful to guard themselves on that point. Supposing Poland declares war and does manage to bring us in it will not save her. We are as helpless to save her as if she was on the Planet Mars. For us to tempt her to make such a suicidal war is an act of mischief deliberately disturbing the Peace of Europe.

Roosevelt who hopes for a third term of office in spite of having landed the U.S.A. with a huge internal debt and 20 millions people on the dole, was looking out for a good slogan and thought that a call to the Democracies to defend “Christianity, Democracy and International Good Faith” would do.

He has had to retreat, and has thrown out a smoke screen to hide his retreat by sending to the World Press and Hitler and Mussolini an absurd document, in which they are told to pledge themselves to Peace for 25 years with a long list of nations, and then hand their future over to a world congress controlled by the three Democracies who were responsible for the Treaty of Versailles. This has been hailed as a wonderful document by the Governments of Great Britain and France.

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In the meantime Peace among the nations of the Danube Basin and of the Balkans is being assured by Hitler and Mussolini, who are having conference with the various Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries. There are three dangers to Peace, the territorial demands of Hungary and of Bulgaria, and the trouble with the Croatians, but with the friendly assistance of Germany and Italy both nations will doubtless be able to come to terms with their neighbours.

These nations are all centering round the Axis because it will give them the three things which the people of Europe most desire, — Peace, ordered stable Government, and trade.

The Totalitarian States stand for certain fundamental principles:

* Peace among the nations, each following out its own economic life.

* Government with only one object — the good of the people, instead of being used for the struggle for power of rival political Parties.

* The abolition of Politicians.

* The abolition of the use of the Press controlled by financial groups to promote war by spreading lies.

* A higher conception of the relation of the individual to the community, which is not merely negative — the obeying of the law — but positive, — the service of the community being the first duty.

* A stable economic and financial system and work for all.

* Freedom from control by international finance.

* Arms for defence but not for attack.

It is obvious that the European nations are grouping themselves in friendly alliance round the Axis and it is time we recognised that fact and accepted the friendship which has been offered us by Germany and Italy.

It is also time that France, for long under the influence of our foreign office with its pernicious traditions, reversed her policy and made friends with her neighbours who have no quarrel with her, settled the quite reasonable demands of Italy, and developed trade with the three countries on her frontiers.

Why should France sacrifice so much because we choose to quarrel with Germany?

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There will probably be no war in Europe because Hitler and Mussolini stand for Peace.

The Europeans are settling down to a long Peace, which clears the deck for the larger question of World Trade and the huge monopoly of Gold, Raw materials and tropical and sub-tropical products held by the three Democracies and the Soviet.

In every speech Hitler and Mussolini have given warning on this matter and they not only represent the needs of themselves and Japan but many other nations.

This of course is what Roosevelt is really thinking about. He is prepared to plunge into a World War to defend Monopoly in the name of “Christianity, Democracy and Good Faith.”

The power of the Monopolists is colossal. They possess the world’s wealth, rule a great part of the world’s population, and have at their command our overwhelming sea power, which enables them to control trade on the high seas, and as we have seen, Roosevelt has already proposed that a trade boycott force the Have Nots into submission.

It is really for this reason that Germany is seeking to develop trade on the old trade route from Asia to Europe and it is for this reason that we are trying to prevent it.

While in Parliament the Government talk about small nationalities, the Conservative Party organisation through its political instructors is telling us that we do not care what happens to small nationalities, but we must stop the development of Germany’s trade in the Danube Basin and the Balkans so as to be able to starve her out by a blockade. It is obviously not only in the interest of the Have Nots, but of the whole world and even of the Monopolists themselves that the trade of the world be set free. Strangely enough the Monopolists are suffering most from their own policy having huge armies of unemployed.

The British Empire when it was a Free Trade Empire had the goodwill of all the world. To-day when it has surrounded itself with tariffs, Ottawa agreements, quotas and international restrictions on output, it no longer has that goodwill which was its real strength, and piling armaments on armaments is not the solution of the question.

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Not so important but of great interest is the Gold monopoly, a monopoly not only of the Gold available but the world’s Gold mines which the Monopolists share with the Soviet.

The U.S.A. is still hoarding larger and larger quantities of Gold. It does not seem to occur to her economists that to exchange goods for Gold, which is buried in their Bank Vaults and is “sterilized” to use the Stock Exchange jargon, is to give away their goods for nothing. Trade is the exchange of goods which have a utility value for other goods which have a utility value, and sterilized gold has no utility value at all.

As long as Gold is still regarded as wealth by the mass of mankind, it is thought necessary for a trading nation to have a Gold reserve, but Germany — deprived by her creditors of all her Gold — has challenged that idea and is building up an export trade without it and is to-day our largest customer.

Germany has not only challenged the political system of the Democracies but the economic system of international finance and international monopolies, and it is to that challenge that all the attacks in the Press and the attempts to force the people of this country into war are due.

If Germany succeeds in her economic system of basing her currency on labour values and exchanging goods for goods, the whole of the Gold stored in the Bank vaults of the U.S.A. can be written off as a dead loss, and Gold mining which depends on selling Gold at a higher and higher price to the Governments who buy the Gold bars and do nothing with them, will collapse. The old story of King Midas who starved because everything he touched turned to Gold will come true.

The German Government has shown that Gold is not necessary and that is one of the reasons for the policy pursued against them by Great Britain, France and the U.S.A. Millions are being spent on this propaganda, but when once the peoples of Great Britain, France and the U.S.A. realise that the cry that Germany aims at universal dominion is a lie to-day just as it was a lie in 1914; that the only danger facing Democracy is its own misrule, weakness in the face of vested interests and sacrifice of public interest to the greedy scramble of politicians for power; that they are being driven like sheep to the slaughter by big finance just as they were driven into the Boer war, they will turn in revolt. The revolt has already begun in England though not reported by our Press.

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Germany has symbolized international finance by calling it “the Jew”. It is true Jews are to a great extent interested. International finance is the public enemy and the promoter of war among the peoples, but those controlling it belong to all nations, and it is centred in London, Paris and New York. The “City” rules this country. They threw the Labour Party out of power when it suited them, and they control our Government today. When Roosevelt and our Government say they are willing to consider how to set free the supply of raw materials they are promising what they cannot perform as they are helpless in the grip of the huge combines. Only the Totalitarian States are free states. King Midas is the Public Enemy number one.

While the Monopolists combine to accumulate Gold it is no longer the basis of their paper currency. We have ourselves abolished the ratio between Gold and paper, and France devalues the Franc at intervals. The confusion between the world currencies continues and will end in a collapse. The only sound currency to-day is the German currency.

It is also necessary for the world to return in some form or other to Free Trade, but it must be a Free Trade that does not cause a competition between different standards of living. Germany has solved these problems by exchanging goods for goods based on barter.

Before these international questions are discussed the Monopolists have to ask themselves why, with the world wealth in their possession, they suffer from serious unemployment, which has reached in the U.S.A. the appalling figure of 20 million people on the dole, while Germany has to hire surplus labour abroad. They must reform their own economic system before they reform the world.

They have also to ask themselves two very fundamental questions, namely, is it possible to combine the Democratic idea with the principle that the first duty of the citizen is the welfare of the community, and with honest government not controlled behind the scenes by the Financiers.

Democracies are in many cases financially corrupt Governments. In our case that is not true but our Government and Parliament are intellectually dishonest.

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Truth is sacrificed every day to a party advantage. If lies were only consciously told it would not be so serious but political life produces a mental degeneration in which it is no longer possible for the politicians to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

An excellent example occurred in the House of Commons the other day when the leaders of the Opposition accused Franco of dropping from his planes chocolate boxes containing infernal machines so that when children picked them up they were blown to pieces. Men who can say such things are really mentally insane and these champions of Democracy are our rulers to whom we submit the safety of our State.

The Parliamentary system is becoming unworkable. The Peoples of the Democracies, owing to the iron control of publicity, are dumb and can be driven to war without a protest. Even a pig is allowed to squeal before he is killed.

We shall owe to Germany not only the abolition of the Politician, but a new ethical conception of a community, Peace in Europe and a reformed economic and trading system which will reconstruct world economics and abolish the evil influences of international finance and huge trading monopolies.

The great speech made by the Fuhrer has deflated the war balloon blown out with poison gas by the Press. Germany makes no threat of war against any nation. The war anxiety among the small nations of Europe is not due to German action but to the uncertainty as to whether we do not intend to provoke war and the fear of our hysterical and unbalanced Democracy, for they know that Great Britain is dangerous when she is filled with moral indignation at the sins of her neighbours. When the giants are fighting the small nations will suffer.

It is true Holland is busy arming her frontier facing Germany but she is just as busy arming her harbours facing England. France is evidently hesitating between Peace, Trade and friendship with Germany and being further involved in our reckless foreign policy. It is said that our beginning of conscription is the price we are paying to keep her with us.

Before finally considering the two policies put before the peoples of Europe and the peoples of this country by the Fuhrer and the British Government respectively, let us briefly look at the present condition of Europe as revealed by our attempts to consolidate it in a new policy against Germany.

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Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania deny that they fear any act aggression on the part of Germany, refuse to be drawn into any alliance that may commit them to war, and state that if war comes they will remain neutral.

Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Hungary and Jugoslavia are united in the closest bonds of friendship and mutual confidence. Rumania and Greece, while not refusing our offer of assistance if attacked, will not sign a Treaty which will in any way commit them to war.

A chain of Peace Pacts beginning in Italy joins Italy to Jugoslavia, Jugoslavia to Bulgaria, Bulgaria to Turkey.

Poland alone has formed a mutual security pact with us, and by so doing broken her Peace Pact with Germany.

France is isolated in Europe to-day and has chosen to quarrel with her three neighbours on her frontiers — Spain, Italy and Germany. This attitude of hostility can be ended when she chooses, and grants the quite reasonable requests of Italy.

Before Hitler rose to power all countries in Europe had armed and a criss-cross of mutual security pacts made war possible and no one could say where it would stop. Since Germany rose to power the consolidation of Europe into friendly nations promoting trade has proceeded apace. A central area of Europe from the frontiers of Holland to the frontiers of Rumania, and united to Italy and Spain is settled as a permanent area of Peace, — an area equal to the old Austrian Empire and united to Germany by friendship not by dominance of a central Government. If Germany and Italy acting jointly are able to settle the differences about land frontiers between Hungary and Rumania, this will extend to the Black Sea.

Formerly Poland could be included. Unfortunately for her she has broken away owing to our interference. This Pax Germanica which is gradually extending over Europe is the work of two men — Hitler and Mussolini.

Let us now consider the two policies offered by Hitler on the one hand and our Government on the other.

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To Hitler we owe the idea of Peace Pacts. Two nations agree not to go to war for a term of years. This does not involve any alliance against a third Power. This policy has spread over Europe and into Asia. Turkey, Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan are united by Peace Pacts.

The first Peace Pact between Germany and Poland resulted in the friendly settlement of very delicate and difficult points and it is disastrous for her that Poland has broken it.

The other policy of mutual security pacts is simply the Policy of Treaties between two nations directed against a third nation under a new name which existed before the war and had such disastrous consequences. Germany was bound to Austria, England was bound to France, and France to Russia, and so an insignificant Balkan war involved all Europe in a catastrophe.

This policy was tried during the reign of the League and produced unrest and fear of war all over Europe. It means the assumption by a nation of obligations to fight for a foreign policy over which it has no control, and it ensures automatically a local war between two powers involving all those linked by mutual security pacts. A break at any point in the complicated chain involves the whole in disaster. It means dividing Europe into two hostile camps, which must end in war sooner or later.

Hitler has always denounced mutual security and Germany beyond her guarantee of the integrity of Belgium and of Slovakia is free from all such commitments. Our alliance with France has been disastrous to both countries as neither country is free to follow the foreign policy suited to its own interests. It is, for instance, essential for France to-day to develop friendly relations with Spain and Italy, and above all with Germany. Many intelligent French men curse the alliance with us dragging France into our disastrous and reckless Foreign Policy.

The peoples of Europe, of Great Britain and the British Empire have the chance of adopting the policy of Hitler and Peace, or of Chamberlain who is being driven by forces hostile to Germany to war. I thank God that the Peace of Europe is in the guardianship of the Fuhrer and therefore, in spite of the frantic efforts of all those here and in Europe and America who want war, secure.

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[Part 9]

“I am deeply stirred by the word which Ulrich Hutten wrote the last time he seized his pen: — Germany.”

ADOLF HITLER

January 30th, 1937

The Case for Germany 

A Study of Modern Germany 

by

A. P. Laurie

M. A. Cantab., D. Sc., LL. D. Edin., F. C. S., F. R. S. E.

With a Preface by Admiral Sir Barry Domvile

K. B. E., C. B., C. M. G.

Berlin W 15

Internationaler Verlag

1939

FIRST EDITION ………… JUNE 1939

SECOND EDITION ……. JULY 1939

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PRINTED IN GERMANY

DEDICATION

It is with admiration and gratitude for the great work he has done for the German people that I dedicate this book to the Fuhrer.

A. P. L.

TO THE READER

There are two sides to every question. You have read one side in our Press for six years.

This book gives the other side.

A. P. L.

PREFACE

It is a great pleasure to me to introduce the public to Dr. Laurie’s valuable book on modern Germany. He is best known to the world as a brilliant scientist, but he has found time in the intervals of his work to pursue with ardour the task upon which every sensible member of the British and German races should be engaged — namely the establishment of good relations and a better understanding between these two great nations.

Dr Laurie knows full well that this friendship is the keystone to peace in Europe — nay, in the whole world.

He is one of the small group who founded the Association known as “The Link”, whose sole aim is to get Britons and Germans to know and understand one another better. He is one of the most zealous workers in this good cause in the country.

He writes of the National Socialist movement with knowledge and great sympathy.

The particular value of this book lies in the fact that it is written by a foreigner, who cannot be accused of patriotic excess in his interpretation of the great work done by Herr Hitler and his associates. I recommend this volume with confidence to all people who are genuinely impressed with the desire to understand one of the greatest — and most bloodless — revolutions in history.

BARRY DOMVILE

Robin’s Tree

8th May 1939.

“As we advance in our social knowledge, we shall endeavour to make our governments paternal as well as judicial; that is, to establish such laws and authorities as may at once direct us in our occupations, protect us against our follies, and visit us in our distresses; a government which shall repress dishonesty, as now it punishes theft; which shall show how the discipline of the masses may be brought to aid the toils of peace, as the discipline of the masses has hitherto knit the sinews of battle; a government which shall have its soldiers of the ploughshare as well as its soldiers of the sword, and which shall distribute more proudly its golden crosses of industry — golden as the glow of the harvest — than it now grants its bronze crosses of honour — bronzed with the crimson of blood.”

RUSKIN. Political Economy of Art.

“All front fighters fought side by side and went through an inferno. They are all comparable to the heroes of the ancient world. It was the manhood of the nations in their prime who fought and experienced the horrors of modern war.

In another war the flower of the nations’ men and women will have to fight. Europe will be destroyed if the best in all of the nations are wiped out. A new conflict will exceed even the ghastly tragedies of the Great War.

I believe that those who rattle the sabres have not participated in war. I know that war veterans speak and think differently.

They energetically desire to prevent another conflict. I hope that the men who are standing before me can contribute to preserve the peace of the world — a peace of honour and equality for all.

Let us not talk of prestige as between the victors and the defeated. This is my one request: Forget what has divided the nations before and remember that history has advanced.”

Field Marshal GOERING addressing the British

and German war veterans.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ……………………………………………………………. PAGE

Dedication

To the Reader

Preface

Field Marshall Goering’s Address

I.   DER FUHRER ……………………………………………………….. 11

II.   THE BELEAGUERED CITY ……………………………………. 21

III.   NATIONAL SOCIALISM ……………………………………… 25

IV.   THE NAZI RALLYS AT NUREMBERG ……………………. 34

V.   THE FOREIGN POLICY OF GERMANY ……………………. 41

VI.   ENGLAND AND GERMANY ………………………………….. 49

VII.   MARCH 7th, A MOST IMPORTANT DATE …………… 54

VIII.   THE REAL ENEMY OF EUROPE ……………………….. 58

IX.   COMMUNISM VERSUS NATIONAL SOCIALISM …… 62

X.   THE UNION OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE …………………. 68

XI.   ACTS OF “AGGRESSION” BY GERMANY ……………… 79

XII.   THE DANCE OF DEATH ……………………………………… 85

XIII.   OUR FUTURE POLICY TOWARDS GERMANY ……. 93

XIV.   THE HITLER YOUTH MOVEMENT ……………………… 100

XV.   THE WINTER HELP ORGANIZATION ………………….. 104

XVI.   NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE PROTESTANT

CHURCH ……………………………………………………………………… 109

XVII. ECONOMICS …………………………………………………….. 118

XVIII. THE FOUR YEARS PLAN …………………………………… 138

XIX.   THE GERMAN COLONIES …………………………………. 141

XX.   THE LABOUR FRONT ………………………………………….. 146

XXI.   AGRICULTURE …………………………………………………. 155

XXII. MUNICH AND AFTER ………………………………………… 167

Chapter Nineteen

THE GERMAN COLONIES

Before the war Germany possessed Tanganyika, Togoland, the Cameroons, Ruanda Urundi, S.W. Africa, Samoa, New Guinea, Nauru, and some small South Sea Islands. As part of the Treaty of Versailles these colonies were all taken from her, and handed over for administration under mandates for the League of Nations. Nothing was settled about their ultimate fate and involved legal discussions have arisen as to whether or no the League can return them to Germany, These discussions are merely obstructive as there can be no question that if we, for instance, asked the League to restore the mandated colonies, the League would do so.

The administration of Tanganyika and Togoland was transferred to Great Britain, Ruanda Urundi to Belgium, S.W. Africa to South Africa, the Cameroons to Great Britain and France, Samoa to New Zealand, Nauru to Australia and the smaller islands to Japan.

In order to queer the pitch libellous attacks, which have no foundation in fact, have been made on the German administration of these colonies. They have had their Colonial wars with the natives but so have we, and if there is to be a general washing of dirty linen about Africa and digging into past records, no country which has possessions there will be left with a shred of reputation.

Impartial investigators have stated that their administration was efficient and humane, and in fact they were with the usual German thoroughness developing the natural resources of their colonies more rapidly than we do.

Some colonies were captured during the war, others handed over under the Peace Treaty.

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President Wilson demanded that a free and open minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims should be made in the Peace Treaty, and it was relying on President Wilson’s promise that the German Nation laid down its arms. The reason given for depriving her of all her colonies in the Treaty of Versailles was “the use to which these colonies were put as a base from which to prey on the commerce of the World and Germany’s inability to administer her colonies”. The first part of this statement must refer to the fact that the Emden made a perfectly legitimate use of the colonies, when engaged in legitimate attacks carried out with the utmost humanity on the commerce of the allies, and the second part of the statement is absurd. Germany was developing her colonial possessions with harbours, roads and railways and laying the foundation for a prosperous future with an organized effort beyond that of other countries.

It has been argued that the total output of the German Colonies for export is so pitiful, amounting to about £6,000,000 a year, that the claim that it will have any real benefit on Germany’s financial position is absurd.

There is more than one reply to that. As we have seen Germany’s financial policy compelled on her by her foreign debts, and absence of a Gold reserve and large proportion of exports devoted to paying interest, makes it impossible for her to maintain her exchange and yet buy freely abroad. The return of her colonies would enable her to obtain more raw materials within her own system of exchange, and so retrieve her position as a customer in the world’s market.

While the gross values are small the actual imports as can be seen by the following table cover the whole or a large part of Germany’s demand for certain colonial products.

During the time she possessed the colonies she was engaged in development work, which has practically come to a standstill.

It is impossible to judge of the final output of produce from these colonies by what was being obtained before the war. The experiment has yet to be tried of testing the capacity for output of these tropical and sub-tropical countries under an active programme and scientific administration and research.

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The revolution made by the Dutch in the production of sugar in Java is a case in point. The Dutch, after a prolonged research, have produced a sugar cane suitable for Java with three times the yield of any other sugar cane. We and France have neglected systematic scientific research on the possibilities of our colonies or conducted it on no systematic plan with grossly inadequate funds. We may be sure that this will not be the German policy.

It is obvious from my account of the present monopoly of raw materials that it is impossible to refuse all consideration to Germany with its large growing and vigorous population in one small area in Europe. Far from denying her limited demands for the return of her former colonies, which while assisting her commercially will not give an outlet to her population, we should strive within our vast Empire to give her other opportunities.

We have on the one hand a vast undeveloped Empire, and Germany a vigorous and growing population. If we could persuade our foreign office to cease carping at Germany, there are infinite possibilities between the two nations similar in blood, and closely allied in friendship, for developing the neglected and thinly populated British estate.

Germany has sprung from the war and the terrible Peace with a renewed vigour, strengthened by suffering and like all vigorous people is increasing in population. We each have qualities which combined can give strength. Let us solve not only European problems but World problems together.

The German colonies produce a wide variety of foodstuffs and raw materials. The exports from Tanganyika in 1935 amounted to £3 – 4 millions sterling, consisting of coffee, cotton, sisal fibre, peanuts, rice and copra. South West Africa is a cattle country, but has also proved a good breeding ground for karakul sheep supplying the Persian lamb skins. There are also diamond deposits. The exports have therefore fluctuated considerably according to whether demands have been reduced or no. Her total exports in 1935 amounted to £2,5 millions sterling.

Ruanda Urundi exports hides, cotton, coffee and tin are £272,000.

The Cameroons produce cacao, palm kernels and palm oil. The total exports amounted in 1935 to £1,3 millions sterling.

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In the British section the cultivation of bananas on a large scale has rapidly increased owing to the enterprise of Germans who bought back their plantations after the war. In 1935 45,000 tons were exported.

Togo exports cacao, palm oil and palm nuts, and copra, the total exports amounting in 1935 to £490,000.

New Guinea exported copra and gold to the value of £2,3 millions in 1935. Samoa exports copra, the exports for 1935 being £127,000.

The island of Nauru contains many valuable phosphate deposits the export value of which in 1935 was £474,000.

The other small South Sea islands mandated to Japan also produce phosphates and the Japanese have introduced the cultivation of sugar. Total exports of the islands £1,1 million.

The total figure of the exports is not large but the actual amounts exported is in many cases, such as cacao, sufficient to supply the whole German demand. It is not a fair comparison to compare that total with the total of the whole of her export trade.

It must also be remembered that from 1914 to the present time no attempt has been made to develop their territory on scientific lines, and little or nothing done to make roads. The — potential wealth of these colonies is enormous if they are developed on a basis of scientific research. This could be done by Germany and judging by past experience will never be done by us. The difference is between Great Britain with such a large garden that most of it grows weeds and it is hardly anywhere cultivated on scientific lines, and Germany with her small allotment to which she will apply intensive cultivation.

It would pay the British Empire to return German East Africa to Germany, as it would become a laboratory providing invaluable data for the cultivation of vast areas in the world with similar climatic conditions.

One of the most curious objections to returning the German colonies, is that all such colonies are a burden and an expense, and more trouble than they were worth. Then why, said Hitler, not allow us to relieve you of these burdens? The reply was strategic reasons, a reply which is meaningless with a German fleet one third the size of ours.

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There will probably be difficulties in returning territories mandated to the Dominions, but I suggest as an experiment we return in the meantime German East Africa.

In considering the whole of the area of Africa including the Congo Basin and Tanganyika, it is apt to be forgotten that these vast areas were first under an International Committee in 1885, which still exists and last met in 1919. Among other regulations the region has to offer equal facilities of trade to all Nations. The meeting held in 1919 specially excluded Germany from the privilege but I am told it has never been enforced. Germany ought to be invited to become a member of the Commission and a meeting called to consider the whole question of the future of this area.

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Chapter Twenty

THE LABOUR FRONT

To imagine that when we speak of the Trades Unions in Germany before National Socialism we are speaking of organisations which were the same as our Trades Unions in this country, is to misread the whole situation that existed in 1933.

There are three organisations in this country which the wage earning class have built up for themselves, — the Friendly Societies, the Trades Unions and the Co-operative Societies. The Trades Unions, built up through years of struggle when they were illegal institutions, have become part of the recognised organisations of Labour in this country and in some cases a complete scheme for dealing with the problems which arise between Labour and Capital has been developed like that which exists in our railways, with the Trades Unions, the employers organisation and the railway board as final arbiters. It is also necessary to remember that the Trades Unions not only represent the organised workers in labour disputes but are also benefit societies.

There is no necessary connection between Trades Unionism and Socialism. There is no reason why a Trades Union secretary should not be a member of the Primrose League and walk on to the platform of the congress with a primrose in his buttonhole, except that it is one of the things which is not done. To-day he is expected to be a member of the Labour Party and accept without question the pale pink brand of Socialism produced by the Bureaucratic mind, the mere thought of which makes a genuine Communist vomit.

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The Socialist resolutions passed every year by the T.U.C. do no harm to anyone, and do not produce the mildest flutter on the Stock Exchange. Every man voting for them is more or less a Capitalist, the Trades Unions themselves have their funds well invested, the Friendly Societies and the Co-operative Societies have hundreds of millions of invested capital. Harcourt once said we are all Socialists now. He might as well have said we are all Capitalists now.

Keir Hardie did the workman a bad turn when he persuaded the Trades Unions to hoist the banner embroidered by the fair hands of Mrs. Webb, but he secured ample funds for the political organisation.

Both the Liberal and the Conservative Parties can claim credit for the advance in social conditions in this country. Only one Party is absolutely sterile and for this reason, that they have adopted a dogma of foreign origin, a patent medicine to cure all social ills, and the Englishman rightly distrusts cure ails and suspects a neatly logical system because he instinctively distrusts logic outside the Book of Euclid.

The marriage of Trades Unionism to Socialism has been an unfortunate marriage for the workman, but it has not wrecked the Trades Union organisation.

If we now study the Trades Unionism in Germany before 1933, we find the Trades Unions run by political adventurers, entirely absorbed in politics, riddled with Communism, hopelessly in debt, and with an income insufficient to pay the official salaries. It was necessary in the interests of the German workman to sweep away the whole rotten system by which he was being exploited.

It is forgotten that Hitler as a youth and young man lived in great poverty picking up casual labour in Vienna, and he had the inestimable advantage of studying international socialism and communism from the inside, a victim with an intelligent and critical mind. He found out two things in Vienna, — one that the class war leads nowhere, the other that the only people who made money out of the class war were the Jews.

He himself, one of the workers and one of the victims, had long thought out his solution when he ordered his followers to take over the Trades Union organisation, to dismiss the official parasites, and organise in its place the Labour Front, which took over the liabilities of the old Trades Unions and secured for the old members the benefits for which they had paid the money which had been squandered. Quite apart from National Socialism, the Trades Unions were rotten, were bankrupt and something had to be done in the interests of the working man.

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The central idea of the Labour Front is an organisation of industry workshop by workshop, in which all those employed in production including the employer and employed are in one organisation with the object of honest production for the good of the German people. Your interests, said Hitler, are not divided, they are the same. While you quarrel over the share of the payment for production, production itself ceases. He determined to replace the economic system of the 19th century, under which labour is bought as a ton of coal is bought and the employer admits no responsibility to the worker, and the State has to intervene at every stage to protect his health and life, by the ideas permeating the old mediaeval guilds. Production was to become human instead of inhuman. We look back with horror upon the exploitation of child labour in the middle of the 19th century.

Karl Marx and Hitler were equally horrified by the inhuman exploitation of the 19th century, but Karl Marx a journalist, saw it from the outside. Hitler lived and suffered inside the system, and Karl Marx gave the world a message of hate, of spoilation, of a brutal materialism, while Hitler brought it a message of Peace and revival of the message of the gospel. You are all wrong, he cries to the revolutionary Socialists, your way is the way of death. The negative of evil must be driven out by the positive of good. We need an ethical idea with which to permeate the body politic. Lenin in his frenzy used to cry out for torrents of blood. He bathed in them before the end, and the Russian workman has got a new master, the Communist official.

“He beat you with whips but I will beat you with scorpions.”

Man moves forward by new ethical ideas or rather by the unfolding of the inner meaning of old ideas like the opening of a flower from its green case, petal after petal is displayed and each means a step upwards.

I do not deny that our English Socialism, though I believe it to be wrong on economic lines, is an ethical movement, but Continental Socialism is and has been a very different affair controlled by men lusting for power and exploiting labour for its own ends.

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The new organisation of labour is known as the Labour Front, which not only carries on the old benefits of the Trades Unions, and supplies them for half the subscription but has undertaken new activities in the “Strength through Joy” movement which we have never thought of in this country. It has also made universal the payment for holidays, which is based upon the National Socialist idea of the workman as a man with rights as a citizen of the German State, and not merely a penny-in-the-slot machine who is only to be paid when his wheels turn inside. If the T.U.C. instead of passing Socialist resolutions would take up the practical tasks of the Labour Front, they would find universal support in this country and double their membership.

Besides the Labour Front which contains to-day over 20,000,000 members, the National Socialist Government has passed an elaborate Labour Law which I shall make some attempt to describe, but before doing so deal with one of the main accusations against the National Socialist Government, — that they have forbidden strikes. Strikes are a form of war, and in the U.S.A. are frequently accompanied by actual warfare, and are destructive and ruinous to both parties and to the community. It took us a long time to recover from the blow to trade of the General Strike. I remember in the Coal Strike of 1921, the Miners Union called out the men at the pumps, thus destroying many millions of pounds of property on which their own living depended. At that time being head of the Technical College in Edinburgh, I wired for our mining students to return from their holidays and go straight to the Fife coal fields and man the pumps. In two days the water was under control, but the Government who had promised to send soldiers to protect the mines were of course not ready, so the mob of miners threw out our boys, the mines were flooded and millions of pounds of property destroyed, and after the strike was over the Fife miners had to wait six months before they could resume their work underground.

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I was violently abused by the Fife miners secretary who afterwards became Secretary for Scotland in the Labour Government for taking the side of the mine owners. I replied I have nothing to do with the quarrel between the miners and the mine owners. The mines do not belong either to the mine owners or the miners. They are my property as a member of the British Commonwealth and I have a right to protect my property, a sound National Socialist principle.

It must not be forgotten that while strikes are forbidden lock outs are also forbidden and it was a lock-out of the miners by the mine owners, before the Commission had reported, that caused the general strike.

If the dreams of the T.U.C. are fulfilled and we become a Socialist State one of the first acts of the State will be to abolish the Trades Unions and forbid strikes.

The Labour Law

The Labour Law is so utterly different from any Act of Parliament in its ideas and expression that it is difficult to follow an intelligible path through its intricate proposals.

In the first place there is the new constitution known as the confidential council in every factory. This body contains representatives from every section of the industry, the workman’s representatives being chosen by secret ballot from a list prepared in consultation with the Labour Front, a list for which certain qualifications are necessary such as that to be on the list, a workman must be over 25 and must have belonged to the establishment for a year, with not less than two years’ previous experience in a similar industry. The office of a member of the council is an honorary one, and the employer or manager is bound to give the council information necessary for carrying out their duties.

The employer or manager is responsible for the welfare of the workers and the council is to assist the employer in his duties with a view to increase the efficiency of the factory and to deal with any disputes arising between the employer and the employed. The members of the council must all belong to the Labour Front organisation.

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The majority of the council may lodge an appeal in writing to the “Labour Front” against any decision of the employer.

The voting list for members is drawn up by the employer and the chairman of the National Socialist cell organisation.

The “Labour Trustee” is a government official and appointed to supervise a group of factories; he has no connection with trade or industry.

The duties of the Labour Trustee are as follows: — They supervise the formation and operation of the confidential councils and give a decision in case of a dispute. They decide in cases of appeal by the council and may reverse a decision of an employer and issue the necessary ruling themselves.

The Labour Trustee decides respecting proposed dismissals. The employer is bound to give notice in writing of more than 9 dismissals out of a 100 employees, and more than 10% of dismissals over 100. The dismissals cannot take place until four weeks after the Labour Trustee has been notified. Establishment rules of hours and wages and grounds for dismissal without notice must be issued in writing by the employer to the work people.

The Labour Trustees may lay down guiding principles for each establishment and rules and general rates where minimum conditions of employment are needed, for the protection of the work people. The Labour Trustee has great powers over his district and can make rules to apply to the special conditions of that district.

The Labour Trustee appoints an advisory council of experts for the various branches of industry in his district for consultation on questions which are of a general nature or which involve a principle. Three fourths of the experts must be chosen from lists of individuals drawn up by the Labour Front.

Employers and members of the confidential councils shall be selected in equal numbers. One fourth of the members can be appointed by the Labour Trustee from suitable persons in the district. The Labour Trustee can appoint a committee of experts to advise in individual cases.

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The Labour Courts

If an employee is dismissed after one year’s employment in an establishment of not less than ten persons he may lodge a complaint with the Labour Court. The complaint must be accompanied by a report from the confidential council that the continuance of employment has been unsuccessfully raised by them.

If the Court decides the reversal of the dismissal it shall include in the sentence an amount of compensation if the employer refuses to revoke the dismissal. It will be noted that the employee is carefully guarded from wrongful dismissal. He has first an appeal to his own confidential council and then to the Labour Court.

Social Honour Courts

One of the most interesting ideas in the Labour Law is the Social Honour Court.

The idea of the Social Honour Court is that a person can harm the State by actions which are not illegal and that the employers and employees in a working community have responsibilities to each other, the works and the State. Offences under this category are as follows: — If an employer exploits his workmen, or abuses his authority, or is disobedient to instructions given by the Labour Trustee: If a member of the confidential council reveals without authority confidential information or technical or business secrets which have become known to him through his duties as a member of the confidential council: If an employee endangers industrial peace by maliciously provoking other employees, or if a confidential man interferes unduly in the conduct of the establishment, or continually disturbs the community spirit.

The Honour Court consists of an official of the judiciary appointed by the Federal Minister of Justice and the Federal Minister of Labour, as chairman, one leader of an establishment and one confidential man as assessors. These two are selected by the chairman from a list drawn up by the German Labour Front.

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The Honour Courts may impose a warning, a reprimand, a disciplinary fine, disqualification for the position of leader, or confidential man, and removal of the offender from his post.

Decisions on offences against social honour are given on the application of the Labour Trustee by an Honour Court established for each Labour Trustee’s district.

Strength through Joy

There must have been a time before the black cloud of industrialisation pouring from a million factory chimneys destroyed joy in life, when the people however poor they may have been had some communal pleasures. The folk songs, the peasant dancing, the beautiful peasant costumes worn on important occasions all indicate that such a time once existed.

The beauty of the buildings in our villages also show a people living in the land who had the capacity for appreciating and the pleasure in building the house and the Church. Mankind does not live by bread alone and this is the central idea of the “Strength through joy” organisation which is a branch of the Labour Front.

The movement has taken four directions. One is that the pleasures of the theatre, the concert hall and travel, even as far as Madeira could be put in the reach of all at a very small expenditure by the individual. Last year by means of the “Strength through joy” organisation 4,850,000 German work people attended theatres. Travelling companies that go from village to village have been organised, the theatres have agreed to give certain special performances at cheap prices, the whole movement has not only brought the theatre to every door but has proved profitable for the theatres themselves.

Excellent music is now also available and the German has always had a love for good music.

The organisation of travel during holidays at first confined to Germany is now being extended overseas and the organisation is now building its own ships for holiday excursions. Last year eleven million workers enjoyed travel in Germany and abroad through the organisation.

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The second side of their organisation is the development of music and dramatic societies and athletic clubs. All this of course would have been impossible by a central organisation. The fact is the “Strength through Joy” idea has caught on in Germany, and with a little guidance from headquarters the villages and the workshops are organising these things for themselves. Broadeasting is being used to transmit the best of their local efforts.

The third idea is improving factory conditions, not only by providing washing and bathing facilities and dining rooms, but by making the factories inside more pleasant places, and turning waste ground outside into gardens, and even converting the hideous dumps into things pleasant to look at. Factories in this country are often pleasant places and well equipped. Bryant and Mays in East London is surrounded by gardens and tennis grounds for their employees. But it is only necessary to penetrate the industrial quarters of Manchester, of the Five Towns, of Birmingham, or of Glasgow, to realise their appallingly dreary ugliness.

50,000,000 marks have been spent on improving the factories since the “Strength through Joy” movement was started, and prizes are given for the most beautiful villages.

The fourth side is their very complete organisation of educational work.

The astounding success of this movement would never have been achieved, as I have said, by a central organisation alone. The people of Germany have grasped the idea of National Socialism and with a little direction and suggestions from headquarters are working out the practical application for themselves. Hitler is right when he says,

“I represent to-day the German people more closely than any Prime Minister of a Democratic country”.

The lightest touch on the wheel from the captain is all that is needed to steer the ship.

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